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_dinoLaser_ t1_j9cn9cf wrote

Reply to comment by Tight-laced in Is COVID unique in the way it affects different individuals in such different ways? by stupidrobots

It’s interesting that it correlates almost 1:1, but having EBV is so common that it almost means nothing. Unless the ten percent of people that never had it also never get Parkinson’s 100% of the time. Wild if that’s the case.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559285/#article-21268_s1

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David_Warden t1_j9fjb0z wrote

As numbers get close to 100% we have a tendency to think of them as much the same and sometimes miss something important.

Let's look at the numbers based on who hasn't tested positive for EBV.

5% in the general population 0.1% in the population with MS

This is a ratio of 50:1 which doesn't seem likely to be meaningless to me.

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