Coronavirus disease 2019: The harms of exaggerated information and non-evidence-based measures

John P A Ioannidis^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
² Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
³ Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁴ Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

Editorial

John P A Ioannidis. Eur J Clin Invest. 2020 Apr.

. 2020 Apr;50(4):e13222.

doi: 10.1111/eci.13222.

John P A Ioannidis^{1

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¹ Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
² Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
³ Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁴ Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

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