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Infecting volunteers with coronavirus may be one way to test potential vaccines. But there are risks

  • Written by Euzebiusz Jamrozik, Infectious Disease Ethics Fellow, Ethox & Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, Univeristy of Oxford. Adjunct, Monash University
Infecting volunteers with coronavirus may be one way to test potential vaccines. But there are risksShutterstock

Researchers are considering using “human challenge studies” to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine research and development. This would involve giving an experimental vaccine to healthy volunteers, then deliberately exposing them to the virus to see whether they’re protected from infection.

Challenge studies can also allow...

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