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Anna McGlothlin is an employee of Berry Consultants LLC, in which capacity she is contracted as a consultant to numerous pharmaceutical and device companies on topics of statistical modelling and trial design, and reports grants and contracts unrelated to this work and consulting fees from Berry Consultants LLC. Todd C. Lee reports research salary support from Fonds de Recherche Quebec-Sante, operating funds for other studies including CATCO from the CIHR; and operating funds for other studies from the McGill Interdisciplinary Institute Infection and Immunity. Roger J. Lewis is an employee of Berry Consultants, LLC, a statistical consulting firm that specialises in the design of adaptive and platform clinical trials. Berry Consultants received compensation for work included in the content of the submission. Steven Y. C. Tong reports a contract as a paid consultant for advice on clinical trial design, and consulting fees from Roivant Sciences as a paid consultant for advice on clinical trial design. Steve A. Webb reports personal consulting fees from ClinicIQ pharma and Roche; an unpaid role as chair of Australian Clinical Trials Alliance; and stock and options with ClinicIQ. All other authors report no potential conflicts.