Recovery trial has enrolled nearly 12 thousand people with coved 19 in more than 30 countries. Researchers have known for well over a decade that colossal amounts of medical research are wasted because of poorly designed trials and failure to assess what research has been done before. The pandemic is, quote, evidence on steroids, says gabriel rader, who directs the evidence based health care programm at the pontifical catholic university of chili in santiago.
A deluge of trials has stress-tested the systems that produce evidence.
Around the world, researchers have raced to test therapies to treat COVID-19. The speed and urgency of this task has revealed both the weaknesses in the collection and use of research-based evidence, and how well-run trials have helped save lives.
This is an audio version of our feature: How COVID broke the evidence pipeline
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