Stooges, useful idiots and mouthpieces for organized medicine and Big Pharm have badmouthed and ridiculed "anecdotal evidence" for years, while carrying water for the establishment. With Covid, the "anecdotal" has been vilified in an unprecedented way, until the real science, peer reviewed studies and consensus among true medical and scientific luminaries could catch up. Now we've got irrefutable evidence such as covered in the OP staring us in the face, but to the true believers within the medical and scientific community, it's "anecdotal". The same thing has happened with all of the vaccine damage to our children, from autism to death within days of an immunization having been administered.
As I have shared in the past, because of my wife's MS diagnosis years ago, we went deep into research and study, digging for the truth about both our situation, and the corruption within and criminal nature of organized medicine and the big pharmaceutical companies. We did the same thing because of autism and vaccine damage to some of the children in our extended family.
Eventually, it took years, we and our newfound belief system were vindicated at every turn. The people in the system whose "advice" would have crippled or killed my wife have one by one quietly slipped away and shut up, proven wrong time and time again by real "evidence" in the form of my wife living and loving life against all odds, primarily because we rejected out of hand about 95% of what they suggested and would have prescribed, while we studied, just cuz. Over time, we found numerous peer reviewed studies to back up what initially was "anecdotal evidence". Those proven wrong never admit it, whether the evidence be peer reviewed or anecdotal, nor do they reverse their stance for the good of others, they just slip away. We've got a few of them on this board.
We were told within hours of my wife's diagnosis that her case was one of the most aggressive they had ever seen, and that she would soon be in a wheelchair if we didn't put her on one of the CRAB drugs quickly, which we never did. To this day, my wife walks in and out of her appointments with her neurologist under her own power with no cane or walker, having driven herself to the appointment in her own car. She walks past patients in wheelchairs who have come to the same neurologist for years, and who used to walk themselves. We prayed a lot from the outset, and left the entire thing in God's hands - beyond that, the difference between those patients and my wife is that those patients have done everything that the medical establishment told them to do.
Covid has been another huge confirmation that we have made a number of good choices medically speaking, and that to a large degree, the medical community simply cannot be trusted. Over the years, we were astounded at how little they actually know about the human body and how it is healed (despite their arrogance), and how to a large degree they have become nothing more than a delivery system for Big Pharm.
Pay attention to that "anecdotal" evidence with your health care needs, it just might save your life.
Rant off, thanks.