(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 16 - In the world there are 75 registered studies on vaccines for Covid-19, with nine candidates having reached phase 3, the last one before the authorization request.
This was stated by the periodic monitoring of the ISS, according to which compared to a month ago the figure has risen by 17. 77% of these experiments, we read in the infographic created by the 'Clinical Trials' group, are randomized, and in total studies plan to enroll nearly 310,000 patients.
China continues to lead the 'ranking', with 23 tests, almost double the US which has 12 tests underway, while Italy has one.
More generally, in the world there are 1972 clinical tests in progress on therapies (79%), prevention (16%) and support therapies against Covid-19, of which 90% is randomized.
also in this case there is an increase of 172 units compared to the previous monitoring.
As for Italy, the 'census' sees 64 studies in progress, one more than on September 14, with about 18 thousand participants.
"For studies relating to drugs, biologics, plasma fromconvalescent or hyperimmune plasma, information publicly accessible from the portal of the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) and from the ClinicalTrials.gov portal of the US National Institutes of Health are consulted and integrated. studies on vaccines, publicly accessible information is consulted from the website of the World Health Organization (WHO) at the page "Draft landscape of COVID-19 candidatevaccines" and from the McMaster University portal "COVID-clinical trial-tracker" ".
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