Author: Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz and James Heathers
The world has gained a better understanding of the relevant Covid-19 disease processes, assembled a solid clinical research base for managing the disease, and produced multiple vaccines that are driving down infections and deaths. Yet the infrastructure for producing empirical knowledge about the SARS-CoV-2 virus frequently failed, leading to potentially devastating public health consequences. Science shot itself in the foot. Not once or twice, but regularly, and painfully. It’s amazing any metatarsals remain. A big part of the problem has been the ever-widening mismatch between the speed of scientific publishing and error correction.
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