What is the policy of the bodies governing licenced medical doctors here?
There is no jurisdiction in the world I am aware of which legislates against a physician identifying himself or herself as a physician, online or otherwise.
I'm not going to defend the study. It seemed a bit shoddy to me
Then why did you bring it up?
I read it again fairly carefully and I saw no specific mention of 'coronavirus' being treated any differently in sample selection than any of the other non-influenza viruses.
I never said it was. I think their entire analysis (of all the viruses mentioned) is fundamentally flawed by excluding all non-vaccinated participants who developed more than one infection.
SARS-cov-2 is (supposed to be) super deadly it seems extra important to take all steps to mitigate it.
It seems we have found some common ground.
Lest it be forgotten, my interest in this study was in the unusually high mortality rates quite specific to the older crowd. The question comes up (or should) what is it that's different about older people? One (of many) things is that they get the flu vaccine at a much higher rate.
The season influenza vaccine is also given to all children under 5 in many jurisdictions around the world, and yet we are seeing very few infections and (as far as I am aware) no deaths in this age group.