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International megatrial of coronavirus treatments is at a standstill

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Kai KupferschmidtScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.The only global trial of potential COVID-19 treatments is languishing.

The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Solidarity trial, set up last year to quickly test potential COVID-19 therapies with tens of thousands of patients, produced headlines in October 2020 when it showed that four candidate treatments offer little benefit.

But since then, it hasn’t launched any new tests. On 27 January, John-Arne Røttingen, who works at Norway’s foreign ministry and chairs the trial’s executive group, pulled the plug on the study’s only remaining arm, which tested the antiviral remdesivir.

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