The use of mechanistic reasoning in assessing coronavirus interventions.

Rationale: Evidence-based medicine (EBM), the dominant approach to assessing the effectiveness of clinical and public health interventions, focuses on the results of association studies. EBM+ is a development of EBM that systematically considers mechanistic studies alongside association studies.

Aims And Objectives: To explore examples of the importance of mechanistic evidence to coronavirus research.

Time to care: why the humanities and the social sciences belong in the science of health.

Health is than the absence of disease. It is also more than a biological phenomenon. It is inherently social, psychological, cultural and historical.