Rapid mobilisation of research in response to covid-19: a paradigm for the future

As clinical researchers in stroke we applaud the rapid mobilisation of research into covid-19 in response to this new global threat.1 Nearly 100 urgent research studies in covid-19 have been approved over the past few weeks, many of them complex trials that would have taken months or years to start before the pandemic.2 This has been made possible, in part, by streamlined and proportionate regulation and approvals. But …