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The Importance of Challenge Trials in Vaccine Testing
The costs of not injecting 14 billion people with this vaccine really fast were huge. Do you think we got the balance right and how could we do better next time? The answer to better that I know of are things called challenge trials. Challenge trials are a very rapid way of finding out if the vaccine works or not. If some of them get sick and then have terrible side effects, you know that too.