Ioannidis has been trying to publish this study for a while. He frequently updates the preprint on medrXiv and others reviewed it and criticized it extensively

Ioannidis has been trying to publish this study for a while. He frequently updates the preprint on medrXiv and others reviewed it and criticized it extensively over the last few months. Here's a review by an actual epidemiologist pointing out specific flaws: https://mobile.twitter.com/GidMK/status/1316511734115385344 https://mobile.twitter.com/GidMK/status/1316511734115385344 In a nutshell he uses clearly inappropriate samples to estimate population prevalence, and inexplicably ignores multiple large high-quality samples that contradict his findings.