Out of Nowhere: Surgisphere- Beware of COVID-19 Guidance From Suspect Data

Source: The Guardian UK

Out of nowhere we learn of Surgisphere, a private US based company that integrates data from 96,000 patients across 1200 hospital around the world.  This sounds too good to be true and is almost certainly a scam. Unfortunately, recent COVID-19 publications in prestigious medical journals based on Surgisphere data influenced the WHO.

This high quality investigative journalism article published in The Guardian shines a revealing light on Surgisphere.

In our zeal to  expand our knowledge on COVID-19 we have compromised on quality and rigor in science. Not our finest hour.

Beware of COVID-19 guidance from suspect data