id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-309582-ihrj84hr AlNaamani, Khalid Medical research during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-08-06 .txt text/plain 4047 188 36 Despite the dedication of enormous resources, the advancement in health care systems and collaboration between different investigators across the world, only a small number of patients over the last decade have in fact benefited from clinical research performed during different outbreaks of respiratory viruses such as was the case for the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the HIN1 flu virus (swine flu) or the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. An example of unpublished results that need to be widely acknowledged because of a negative outcome leading to early termination is that of a Brazilian study (CloroCovid19 ) which was a parallel, double-blind, randomized, phase IIb clinical trial, which started on March 23, 2020, aiming to assess safety and efficacy of Chloroquine diphosphate (CQ) in the treatment of hospitalized patients with severe respiratory syndrome secondary to SARS-CoV-2 infection. ./cache/cord-309582-ihrj84hr.txt ./txt/cord-309582-ihrj84hr.txt