John P. A. Ioannidis: A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data, 17 March 2020.
The epidemiologist and medical statistician Ioannidis teaches at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He criticizes the speculative worst case scenarios of his colleagues, points to the completely unclear data situation and calls for representative surveys as an indispensable prerequisite for appropriate control measures.