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Coronavirus Update: New Clinical Trials Network Could Help Pick Vaccine, Antibody Winners Faster

Launched By Operation Warp Speed

 
• By Scrip Team

Plus: the World Health Organization has commissioned an independent panel to look at pandemic responses, while the emergence of an unknown pneumonia in Kazakstan is causing concern.  

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WHO director Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has asked an independent commission to consider global responses to the pandemic.

A new US and international clinical trials network has been launched, with the goal of accelerating recruitment for large-scale trials of vaccine candidates and investigational monoclonal antibodies against COVID-19.

Launched under the auspices of the US government's Operation Warp Speed and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the network is meant to address the fragmented nature of COVID-19

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