>>For your interpretation (and jq's) to be correct, Tefferi would have to be a complete dissembler.
Not at all - I believe the abstract is clear and close to unambiguous. The tight word limit means that you have to be terse. The abstract would have been worded very differently if these were indeed full CRs.
I'm going just on the abstract here, not on what Tefferi might have said elsewhere.