More than 100 clinical trials of dozens of potential treatments have already begun in multiple countries 'But no one is well served by putting treatments out there that haven't been adequately tested,' Dr. Caleb Alexander, professor of epidemiology, said
, can treat COVID-19, the illness that results from coronavirus infection. In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that the state would begin trials looking at the drug combination hydroxychloroquine and Zithromax.
"There's an enormous demand for new treatments," Dr. Caleb Alexander, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said."But no one is well served by putting treatments out there that haven't been adequately tested."Before new drugs are made available, they must be rigorously tested to ensure that they are both safe and effective. The consequences of not so doing can be dangerous: In the 1970s, for example, the U.S.
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