TY - JOUR T1 - The power of cooperation JF - European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy JO - Eur J Hosp Pharm SP - 189 LP - 189 DO - 10.1136/ejhpharm-2020-002338 VL - 27 IS - 4 AU - Hugo M van der Kuy Y1 - 2020/07/01 UR - http://ejhp.bmj.com/content/27/4/189.abstract N2 - COVID-19 has changed the world rapidly in ways we would never have imagined at the end of 2019. This has been described already earlier in this journal.1 Research however appears to be blooming like weeds in spring. It comes from everywhere, grows everywhere and sometimes it becomes important and sometimes its destiny is an early death.China faced the virus 2–3 months ahead of Europe, which might have given them a window of opportunity to set the example.Unfortunately, most of the research published until now from the ‘COVID-china’ is relatively small, a single-arm with no control group, no randomisation and often from a single centre.This is … Correspondence to Professor Hugo M van der Kuy, Pharmacy, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam 3015, The Netherlands; h.vanderkuy{at}erasmusmc.nl ER -