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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it an unprecedented explosion of scientific research. There are currently nearly 250,000 listings in the World Health Organization s global database of COVID-19 studies. The listings include preprints (the familiar not yet published studies often mentioned in news articles), published literature and reports, plus registries of clinical trials.
But many of these articles and trials have been in vain, say an international group of researchers. While recognizing the incredible pressure researchers, regulators and policy makers have felt during COVID-19 s quick and mysterious onslaught, they re concerned about an overwhelmingly large number of clinical trials . of questionable methodological quality.
Lily Padula for NPR
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it an unprecedented explosion of scientific research. There are currently nearly 250,000 listings in the World Health Organization s global database of COVID-19 studies. The listings include preprints (the familiar not yet published studies often mentioned in news articles), published literature and reports, plus registries of clinical trials.
But many of these articles and trials have been in vain, say an international group of researchers. While recognizing the incredible pressure researchers, regulators and policy makers have felt during COVID-19 s quick and mysterious onslaught, they re concerned about an overwhelmingly large number of clinical trials . of questionable methodological quality.
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