National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins By Jocelyn KaiserScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.More than 100 treatments and vaccines are in development to stem the COVID-19 pandemic, and some onlookers have worried that this sprawling and potentially duplicative effort is wasting time and resources.
Hoping to bring order to the chaos, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and major drug companies today announced a plan to stage carefully designed clinical trials of the drugs and vaccines they have decided are the highest priorities for testing and development.The public-private partnership involves NIH, other U.S.