According to these authors from the Italian Medicines Agency, “evidence-informed prescribing and clinical trials were beaten off the mark by social media, rumors, and panic in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.” In this article, they describe lessons learned to counteract misleading information and nudge the research community to do high-quality, informative multigroup trials.

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