Panic prescribing has become omnipresent during the COVID-19 pandemic

J Clin Invest. 2020 Jun 1;130(6):2752-2753. doi: 10.1172/JCI139562.

Authors

Arthur L Caplan¹, Ross Upshur^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Division of Medical Ethics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
² Department of Family and Community Medicine and.
³ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, USA.
⁴ Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19.

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Clinical Trials as Topic / ethics
Clinical Trials as Topic / methods
Compassionate Use Trials / ethics
Compassionate Use Trials / methods
Coronavirus Infections / drug therapy*
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Drug Repositioning / ethics
Drug Repositioning / methods
Drugs, Investigational / therapeutic use
Ebola Vaccines / therapeutic use
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / epidemiology
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / prevention & control
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / therapy
Humans
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral / drug therapy*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
SARS-CoV-2

Substances

Drugs, Investigational
Ebola Vaccines