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Sir Martin Landray on saving over a million lives

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What Is the Recovery Trial?

Professor Peter horby set to work on a protocol for the trial that we now know as the recovery trial. Every trial starts with a recipe, if you like, an instruction book of how u're going to set out the experiment. We wrote the protocol over the ninth and tenth of march, and it was based on some very fundamental principles. It had to be practical, because we were looking ahead to a situation in which hospitals were overflowing. The most important determinent of the success of this trial is the extent to which doctors and nurses are willing to include their patients in the trial. That seemed a pretty good mantra if you're facing a pandemic.

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