Funding for this research was provided by:
Wellcome Trust (107834/Z/15/Z, 106491/Z/14/Z)
Rhodes Scholarships
Article History
Received: 11 May 2020
Accepted: 5 August 2020
First Online: 21 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval was not required for this work.
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: We declare one competing interest. We make the case for large-scale harmonised pandemic trials in this manuscript, and the senior author (Peter Horby) is leading the Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) trial, which is the largest clinical trial for COVID-19 treatments presently enrolling across the UK.