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Waste in covid-19 research
Covid-19: research methods must be flexible in a crisis
BMJ 2020; 370 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2668 (Published 06 July 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;370:m2668
- Subhradip Karmakar, associate professor and group leader1,
- Ruby Dhar, scientist1,
- Babban Jee, scientist-C2
- 1Room 3020, Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
- 2Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India
- subhradip.k{at}aiims.edu
Glasziou and colleagues raise some essential points but still seem quite judgmental of the covid-19 research community.1
We need to accept that our society is going through an extraordinary crisis, and research institutions worldwide are facing unprecedented challenges just to remain operational. Under these difficult circumstances, it’s not unusual to use slightly abridged yet highly innovative approaches2 to tackle scientific …
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