In TFA they mention a insightful case study: “Most clinical trials try to track every single possible data point about patients, thus inflating costs. But Land

In TFA they mention a insightful case study: “Most clinical trials try to track every single possible data point about patients, thus inflating costs. But Landry and Horby’s trial could carefully strip down the data needed to the essentials, focusing on information that could easily be collected from medical records. “ A couple sentences later: “The result was a single study, RECOVERY, that determined more than any other what medicines could help Covid patients.” As for why we arent’t doing better, just last week there was a HN post that I personally enjoyed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545209 EDIT: The RECOVERY trial has its own wikipedia page, more references therein if you are interested in the details https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RECOVERY_Trial https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RECOVERY_Trial