Doctor, what I said during my testimony was there's just no chance of a vaccine coming this year. What there is a chance of is a drug coming out of the types of clinical trials that Dr. Strong just described. Yes, they have to be large trials. Yes, they have to be well designed.
I am reasonably optimistic that drug trials will find a drug that would either blunt the worst consequences of infection, i.e., a drug that reduces the chances of death, or a drug that, if given early, prevents the disease advancing to that point and perhaps even makes that person less infectious to others. Don't I wish they had found it by yesterday? We all do. I'm afraid it's just going to take time.
In the meantime, Dr. Strong's caution not to over-interpret small studies is a good one.