Peter Attia· MD
if you want to prevent a very severe critical infection you have to treat 321 people
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
if you want to prevent a very severe critical infection you have to treat 321 people
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when you go down to hospitalization requiring icu admission it was two participants versus 29 participants and that gave you an absolute risk reduction of 0.14 and again the reciprocal of that is 729