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So my guess is that there were no more than 40 and perhaps as few as 35 deaths inside the interim analysis.

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Your line of thinking to come to this conclusion makes zero sense. The trial was at 220 patients. So it makes sense that deaths 46-50 happened in patients 196-220. If there were only 35 or 40 deaths in the interim, then there would be 10 or 15 deaths in the 25 patients that came after patient number 195.