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More than 80 clinical trials launch to test coronavirus treatments

As HIV drugs, stem cells and traditional Chinese medicines vie for a chance to prove their worth, the World Health Organization attempts to bring order to the search.
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China has more than 80 running or pending clinical trials on potential treatments for COVID-19, the illness caused by a coronavirus that has thus far killed nearly 1,400 people and infected more than 48,000 across China.

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Nature 578, 347-348 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00444-3

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