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for the latest info, visit https://www.ascpskincare.com/updates/blog-posts/coronavirus-and-your-practice 15 Whatever your response, you'd be right. In the course of an average day during lockdown, you're bound to come across several dozen similar headlines—more often than not leading to speculative pieces on what might or might not be happening to our world with varying degrees of accuracy. Let's face it: this is possibly the single most impactful major event in our lifetimes, and it's hard not to get caught up in a desperate search for information on the science behind the situation. As epidemiologists, infectious disease specialists, and all manner of experts take to the airwaves to advise, admonish, and inform us, a lot of contradictory information is flying around. Official-looking titles and well-crafted articles selling either hope or fear can suck us in quite easily, but after an hour or so of scrolling and clicking in the hope of making sense of it all, we can end up more confused than when we started. To cut through the noise, it would make sense to go straight to the research itself. Following World Health Organization (WHO) policy put in place following lessons learned from the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak, scientific publishers worldwide agreed to make all research and data on public health emergencies freely available, so that all scientists could access information and pool resources and efforts toward developing a vaccine and/or curative drugs.1 This has been applied to the current COVID-19 crisis. Reflecting the speed of virus spread, they also prioritized peer review and online pre-print publication to make every snippet of research available quickly, and research databases are now flooded with new studies daily. By Sasha Chaitow, PhD