COVID-19 therapeutics: how to sow confusion and break public trust during international public health emergencies

Since SARS-CoV2 was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, those tasked with the stewardship of public health at a global, regional, and local level—policymakers, politicians, scientists, drug regulators, health officials, professional associations, journal editors, publishers,...

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Autores principales: Singh, Jerome Amir, Ravinetto, Rafaella
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7379753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32719731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40545-020-00244-0
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spelling pubmed-73797532020-07-24 COVID-19 therapeutics: how to sow confusion and break public trust during international public health emergencies Singh, Jerome Amir Ravinetto, Rafaella J Pharm Policy Pract Commentary Since SARS-CoV2 was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, those tasked with the stewardship of public health at a global, regional, and local level—policymakers, politicians, scientists, drug regulators, health officials, professional associations, journal editors, publishers, and clinicians—have displayed rushed decisions and lapses in judgment in their handling of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as potential COVID-19 therapeutics and prophylactics. These lapses merit noting as they hold lessons for how the guardians of medicines regulation and public health can inadvertently sow confusion and damage public trust. BioMed Central 2020-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7379753/ /pubmed/32719731 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40545-020-00244-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7379753/
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