"a randomised controlled trial has been initiated quickly to assess the efficacy and safety of combined use of lopinavir and ritonavir in patients hospitalised with 2019-nCoV infection."
From @TheLancet https://tinyurl.com/w5qfs4w
Some prior efficacy in SARS and MERS
#coronavirus
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These were terrific. Properly conducted, and generated data that will help for decades to come.
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Yup, they really broke new ground, proved ethical trials *are* possible in ongoing outbreak situations & will save millions of lives as the same techniques are used in future outbreaks
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But was a long time before RCTs of treatments were considered acceptable by the 3 most-affected countries during the W Africa Ebola epidemic - essentially only at the tail end. In the DRC outbreak, randomisation compared different experimental treatments; everyone offered a drug
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That is true; the trials were carefully considered (rightly)
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