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First US Covid-19 tri­als set to get un­der­way in Ne­bras­ka and Wash­ing­ton, backed by NIH

The first US clin­i­cal tri­als on the nov­el coro­n­avirus are sched­uled to get un­der­way next month at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ne­bras­ka Med­ical Cen­ter, where Amer­i­can pas­sen­gers were tak­en af­ter be­ing evac­u­at­ed from the Di­a­mond Princess cruise ship, and at the Kaiser Per­ma­nente Wash­ing­ton Health Re­search In­sti­tute. Both tri­als are spon­sored by the NIH’s Na­tion­al In­sti­tute for Al­ler­gy and In­fec­tious Dis­eases, which has led the US’s med­ical re­sponse to the out­break.

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