QUESTIONS ABOUT TIMELINE

ICMR in its letter to trial centres laid down a deadline of August 15 for completion of clinical trials. This has led experts to ask

How will processes that

■ require weeks of observation for an immune response be collapsed into days? How will approvals

■ from institutional ethics committees – which can take weeks

-- from each of the trial centres be obtained in this short window? How will generation,

■ entry and analysis of data be done in this time period since trials have not even begun yet