key: cord-0798551-yvxay6dn
authors: Maggioni, Aldo P.; Andreotti, Felicita; Gervasoni, Cristina; Di Pasquale, Giuseppe
title: COVID-19 trials in Italy: A call for simplicity, top standards and global pooling
date: 2020-06-28
journal: Int J Cardiol
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2020.06.043
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doc_id: 798551
cord_uid: yvxay6dn

The novel coronavirus disease, affecting ~9 million people in the past five months and causing >460,000 deaths worldwide, is completely new to mankind. More than 2,000 research projects registered at ClinTrials.gov are aiming at finding effective preventive or curative treatments for rapid transfer to clinical practice.

J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f 5 7. International coordination needed to encourage conduct of large, decision-relevant COVID-19 clinical trials. Accessed May 20, 2020. https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/press-release/international-coordination-needed-encourage-conduct-large-decision-relevant-covid-19-clinical-trials_en.pdf 8. RECOVERY UK Trial. Accessed June 14, 2020. https://www.recoverytrial.net/ 9. WHO SOLIDARITY Trial. Accessed June 14, 2020. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/global-research-on-novelcoronavirus-2019-ncov/solidarity-clinical-trial-for-covid-19-treatments 10. COPCOV Trial. Accessed June 14, 2020. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04303507 

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