ADADSeven months into the pandemic, front-line doctors have in many cases become experts in treating covid-19. The National Institutes of Health is preparing to launch a large, randomized trial to formally test different doses of blood thinners, which have been widely used to treat blood clots caused by the virus. “That emphasizes and underscores something I repetitively talk about: the importance of the placebo-controlled randomized trial. They learned this not by doing a randomized trial, but by collecting data on the people they treated and studying trends. Doctors are only beginning to understand the long-term effects of the virus, and Jeff has a heart scan scheduled in October.

Source: Washington Post August 16, 2020 20:37 UTC