Take a "Buyer Beware" Approach With Preliminary Data

The ongoing race to prevent and treat COVID-19 is raising questions about "preprint" reports and other preliminary data.

Preprints are early versions of articles posted BEFORE peer review or editing. Press releases or abstracts are other ways data are made available before peer review.

"Early release" or "online first" articles are different...they go through full review before publication.

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