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Vinay, I continue to post the same thing here. Someday you may read these comments (although history says "no"). Some of the obvious (e.g., masking) trials could be done anytime and could have been started at any time over the past year when I posted a comment suggesting it. I expect that money could be found -- happy to work on that angle. And your endlessly long grant stack says you know how to do that in spades.

So why don't YOU do one or two of these RCTs in this area that is clearly so important to you (and the rest of us)? In fact, virtually all of the whiners about it just whine -- and complain that no one is doing an RCT. You would be first on my list to do one, but you are not.

Many, many years ago one of my whines was how many patients were dying that were on the cardiothoracic pump. I kept whining there were no studies and we had no idea why this was happening. Someone said "Well, if you are that concerned, why don't you do one?" I thought about it and they were right. So I did one which completely changed how anticoagulation has been done ever since in cardiothoracic surgery. The analog seems strong to me.

Not trying to strongarm you to doing something you do not like. But until you and your peers take this on, it remains an important question.

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China just completed the largest trial in history on lockdowns and masking.

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