Prognosis

The Tiny Data Firm at the Center of the Hydroxychloroquine Storm

  • Authors pull studies in top journals based on Surgisphere data
  • The Lancet urges institutional review of company and data

Hydroxychloroquine sits on a shelf at Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, on May 20.

Photographer: George Frey/AFP/Getty Images

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The founder of Surgisphere Corp., a data analytics firm based outside Chicago, quoted Sun Tzu’s Art of War in remarks to Utah’s Western Governors University.