As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to develop, the scientific community has responded by rapidly collecting and disseminating information about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its ability to infect humans and other animals. This fundamental information has allowed for innovations in the areas of diagnostics and therapeutics that continue to be proposed and developed upon. In this review, we seek to explain the scientific rationale underlying these technologies and to critically evaluate the literature available about them.
Scientific and medical research broadly is shaped by a number of biases. Some concerns include how clinical trials recruit and operate.