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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => COVID-19 => Topic started by: set fair on 05/04/2020 22:10:45

Title: Could we find promising drugs in the data?
Post by: set fair on 05/04/2020 22:10:45

There have been millions of tests now. Is it possible to look at the drugs prescribed for the people tested and the test results to find anomylies? Say a particular drug is prescribed to 0.5% of the population but only to 0.1% of those who tested positive for coronavirus? Or would other variables swamp any evidence?