(CNN) — The World Health Organization announced in a press briefing in Geneva on Wednesday that it has organized a study to examine various untested coronavirus treatments.
“WHO and its partners are therefore organizing a study in many countries in which some of these untested treatments are compared with each other,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during the briefing. “This large, international study is designed to generate the robust data we need, to show which treatments are the most effective.”
Tedros added: “We have called this study the SOLIDARITY trial. The SOLIDARITY trial provides simplified procedures to enable even hospitals that have been overloaded to participate. Many countries have already confirmed that they will join the SOLIDARITY trial — Argentina, Bahrain, Canada, France, Iran, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and Thailand — and I trust many more will join.”
