Is there enough evidence to support that current COVID-19 treatments are better than placebo in terms of symptoms’ severity and aftermath?
There are over 170 clinical trials on COVID-19 treatment registered now in the international databases and very few have been completed. Currently promoted pharmacological treatments are, at the most, based on anecdotic data collected in small numbers of COVID-19 patients. These studies did not satisfy evidence-based medicine criteria, but caught general attention through news media, for example hydroxychloroquine.163