E-DRUG: Medical Product Quality Report: COVID-19 issues // issue 2
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Dear colleagues,
The COVID-19 pandemic is accompanied by a multitude of reports of
substandard and falsified medical products, ranging from personal
protective equipment to diagnostic tests, medicines, and vaccines. In
response to this, we started a system for collecting, curating and
visualizing information available in the public domain on quality concerns
related to COVID-19 medical products.
Last month we shared the first issue of the Medical Product Quality Report
describing reports from scientific literature, public alerts/warnings, and
lay press: 'COVID-19 Issues covering January to June 2020'
We are now delivering monthly reports.
The second issue, covering the month of July 2020 shows a number of 42
incidents from searches in Google News.
It is available at
https://www.iddo.org/document/medical-product-quality-report-covid-19-issues-issue-2-july-2020-main-text-plus-annexes
Future monthly reports will be made available at
https://www.iddo.org/mq/research/medical-product-quality-reports
Any remarks or additions to content are greatly appreciated (please write
to medicinequality@iddo.org). We would be delighted if you could
disseminate this information within your network.
Very best wishes,
Kerlijn Van Assche, Celine Caillet, Paul N Newton
Medicine Quality Research Group, Infectious Diseases Data Observatory
(IDDO) & Mahidol Oxford Research Unit (MORU), Centre for Tropical Medicine
& Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford,
Oxford, UK
Kerlijn Van Assche <kerlijn.vanassche@iddo.org>