Regulators Exchange Info On COVID-19 Vaccines, EU Urges Pooling Resources

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Regulators are trying to keep sight of the bigger picture amidst disparate efforts to develop potential treatments and vaccines for the coronavirus outbreak. The World Health Organization and EU regulators are concerned that small individual studies may not be in the best interests of patients and are suggesting pooling resources. 

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As companies experiment with potential treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, regulators across the globe are trying to ensure high-level focus to harness synergies.

In the EU, for example, the research community is being urged to pool resources into large multi-center, multi-arm clinical trials as this would most likely generate the conclusive evidence

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