Medical experimentation

The article outlines the exemptions made by d. 18/2020 (Measures to strengthen the National Health Service and economic support for families, workers and businesses related to the epidemiological emergency by COVID-19) to the legal architecture of the responsibilities of principal actors behind clinical trials of drugs for compassionate use in the wake of the establishment of a Unique National Ethics Committee and the devising of new expertise in charge of AIFA. While waiting for the vaccine, the compassionate use of drugs, as we will see, is at present almost the only viable path of health activities around the world against SARS-Cov-2 which can be credited with creating an unprecedented 'scientific relevance' by the world scientific community.

This paper sets out the legal framework adopted in Italy for performing diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2 and for containing SARS-CoV-2 contagion, by analysing the consequences of their application and reviewing the decisions taken on this point by the Regional Administrative Courts in the framework of monocratic precautionary procedures.