The practical tradeoff was between what, where and when to publish. The first version of the preprint which is on medrxive contains those estimates. Some version with them could probably be published in a much worse journal than Science, and would have much less impact.
We could have published them separately, but a paper is a lot of work, and it’s not clear to me whether, for example, to sacrifice some of the”What we tried”and get this done would have been a good call.
It is possible to escape from the game in specific cases—in the case of covid, for example, the advisory body we created in the Czech Republic was able to take into account analyses based on “internal quality”, especially if it was clear peer review game will take months. If such bodies existed in more/more countries, it would be possible. Similarly, it could be done with the help of an ECDC or WHO type institution.
In general, it’s an “inadequate equilibrium” type of problem, I have some thoughts on typical solutions to them, but not in easily shareable written form, at the moment.
The practical tradeoff was between what, where and when to publish. The first version of the preprint which is on medrxive contains those estimates. Some version with them could probably be published in a much worse journal than Science, and would have much less impact.
We could have published them separately, but a paper is a lot of work, and it’s not clear to me whether, for example, to sacrifice some of the”What we tried”and get this done would have been a good call.
It is possible to escape from the game in specific cases—in the case of covid, for example, the advisory body we created in the Czech Republic was able to take into account analyses based on “internal quality”, especially if it was clear peer review game will take months. If such bodies existed in more/more countries, it would be possible.
Similarly, it could be done with the help of an ECDC or WHO type institution.
In general, it’s an “inadequate equilibrium” type of problem, I have some thoughts on typical solutions to them, but not in easily shareable written form, at the moment.