John P.A. Ioannidis - co-director of Stanford University's Meta-Research Innovation Center and professor of medicine, biomedical data science, statistics, and epidemiology and population health - thinks that data shows Americans are vastly overreacting to the coronavirus.
In an opinion piece written for STAT last week, Ioannidis said, "the current coronavirus disease, Covid-19, has been called a once-in-a-century pandemic. But it may also be a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco."