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New COVID drugs face delays as trials grow more difficult

Fewer people are eligible for the massive studies needed to test treatments for severe COVID-19.
  1. Saima May Sidik
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After two years of breakneck research, scientists have amassed a collection of therapies to treat people with COVID-19. But now, researchers fear that development of new treatments could falter as the clinical trials needed to test them become increasingly difficult.

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Nature 606, 637 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01602-5

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