Some Thoughts about the New Coronavirus Syndrome and its Transmission

First and upfront, let’s call this virus WARS*, which stands for Wuhan Associated Respiratory Syndrome.  President Xi Jingping called for a war against the new virus, and a war it is.  Therefore our acronym makes intuitive sense.  The naming of Continue reading Some Thoughts about the New Coronavirus Syndrome and its Transmission

The War about Data Access

Several articles in the April 7 issue of BMJ were devoted to the epic battle fought by BMJ and Cochrane to gain unfettered access to the Tamiflu® and Relenza® data. Not just some data, but all the data. Considering that Continue reading The War about Data Access