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>The outcomes of some current clinical trials of chloroquine in China have been announced, without access to the data.

This seems to be the link to the details of clinical trials in China that are made available

http://www.chictr.org.cn/searchproj.aspx?title=氯喹&officialna...

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I checked the most recent result from that search: http://www.chictr.org.cn/showproj.aspx?proj=50843

At the very bottom, it says "original data will be published on web-based public database in 6 months after the research" which is a bit disappointing.

What would be the motivation for that 6 month delay? Cynically it only seems like a way to grab headlines without any possibility of informed criticism, but I really want to believe that there are other possible motivations!

Maybe it would take a lot more work to get the data into a publishable format and they don't think that's their highest priority right now? Being charitable here.

Most likely because this is a general notice and when situations are boring their bureaucracy can take them 6 months.

Can anyone mention a reasonable explanation for the 6-month delay? All I can think is that they want to prevent irresponsible purchases thus only including it in treatment guidelines for now.

maybe they forgot to change that page on their powerpoint template? I know I've done it.

I think the 6 month delay relates to patient by patient data. They can release group statistics before.

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