The Mercy Trial

We managed 1000 RDS in something like nine weeks in our San Rafaeli hospital. So apparently the recruitment rate was not completely disrupted. And you can see that the number of centers, randomizing patients, stopped it for one year because the ethical committee stopped working. All the administrative staff stopped working for several months in Italy with the pandemic. From our point of view, it was because we were starting the exponential phase of the recruitment and the recruitment remains stable thanks to other centers in other parts of Italy, which were less affected.