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Welcome to this audio long read from nature.

In this episode, How COVID Broke the broke the evidence pipeline, written by Helen Pearson

and read by me, Benjamin Thompson. It wasn't long into the pandemic before Simon Carly realized

we have an evidence problem. It was early 2020 and COVID-19 infections were starting

to lap at the shores of the United Kingdom, where Carly is an emergency medicine doctor

at hospitals in Manchester. Carly is also a specialist in evidence-based medicine, the

transformative idea that physicians should decide

how to treat people by referring to rigorous evidence, such as clinical trials. As cases of COVID-19

climbed in February, Carly thought that clinicians were suddenly abandoning evidence and reaching

for drugs just because they sounded biologically

plausible. Early studies Carly saw being published often lacked control groups or enrolled too

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