#hypeful

Overselling stem cells for COVID-19: WSJ article & UMN PR

Many are  jumping on the bandwagon of trying stem cells for COVID-19 or testing other cellular therapies for the novel coronavirus disease, but there have been problems with either the rationales for the trials themselves or more often with how they portrayed. Sometimes there has even been outright hype.

I’ve called this collective trend of promotion of scads of trials of cell therapies for COVID…