The eighth alternative to evidence based medicine in the early era of the COVID-19 pandemic: Too much emergency and emotion, too little evidence

For many of us who “grew up” during the affirmation of EBM, learning from its virtues and vices, the early era of COVID-19 pandemic represented the denial of more than 20 years of its history. After the EBM revolution, the present trend has taken the form of a counterrevolution with unacceptable consequences. Those who care for COVID-19 patients have felt on their skin a sense of skepticism turning to defeat and impotence while treating patients with drugs that seemed more toxic than effective.