EU Regulators Concerned By Mushrooming Of Small COVID-19 Trials

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Based on experience from earlier epidemics, EU regulators are concerned that the high number of COVID-19 trials starting in a confined geography at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic will not be able to enrol patients up to their pre-established sample size. 

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Senior EU regulators have expressed concern over the “unfortunate” mushrooming of stand-alone COVID-19 clinical trials and observational studies of single-agent interventions despite clear advice to the contrary.

The regulators say that in any pandemic or epidemic - as was seen in the recent Ebola outbreak in West...

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