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COVID-19 Therapeutic Trials: Investigators Should Join Forces Rather Than Conduct Single Site Studies

 
• By Brenda Sandburg

‘Treacherous combination’ of small clinical trials, lagging enrollment, unreported results and uncompleted trials is hindering COVID-19 research, former FDA Commissioner Califf says. Yale professor calls for a ‘Manhattan Project’ around knowledge and a change in the academic star system.

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Many clinical trials of COVID-19 therapeutics are small and never completed • Source: Alamy

Clinical trials of COVID-19 therapeutics are hobbled by a host of factors, including fragmentation into numerous small studies, former US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf noted. He advocated that investigators work together on one large study rather than conducting single site trials.

“The real problem, I think, when the dust settles is that we have all these trials that never finish and they’re just sort of hanging out there,” Califf said

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