Audio long-read: How COVID exposed flaws in evidence-based medicine
Jun 28, 2021•22 min
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Episode description
A deluge of trials has stress-tested the systems that produce evidence.
Around the world, researchers have raced to test therapies to treat COVID-19. The speed and urgency of this task has revealed both the weaknesses in the collection and use of research-based evidence, and how well-run trials have helped save lives.
This is an audio version of our feature: How COVID broke the evidence pipeline
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