On March 18, 2020 the WHO launch their SOLIDARITY initiative, a multi-arm, multi-country coordinated clinical trial effort for potential coronavirus therapies “to help find an effective treatment for COVID-19”. It is one of the largest international randomised trials for COVID-19 treatments, enrolling almost 12,000 patients in 500 hospital sites in over 30 countries.” [4, 5]
Global Randomised controlled clinical trials focused on hospitalised patients NOT those in an early outpatient setting which was the focus of frontline doctors who were successful in keeping their patients out of hospital.
The success that front line doctors are having [1, 2, 3] is NOT being explored by health authorities in their official trials.