Saginur and Cameron: COVID-19 clinical trials will move us from guesswork to evidence

COVID-19 appeared in China in December and has spread around the world in breathtaking fashion, leaving unprecedented damage in its wake, with tens of thousands of deaths and millions of infections. Information and misinformation have spread around the world even faster. It being a novel infection, there were no vaccines and treatments known to work to cure the disease. Quickly, the causative virus was identified and diagnostic tests developed. Studies done in the test tube, evaluating old drugs