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Rob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethics
80,000 Hours Podcast
The Ethics of Human Challenge Trials for COVID-19
"I think we could have sped up the discovery that these vaccines are effective by quite a lot of time if instead of waiting or vaccinating a whole bunch of people and then sending them out to the population," he says. "Instead we gave someone the vaccine waited three weeks and then actually just infected them with COVID-19 and then saw whether and so whether they got sick" The idea came up very early on but there was this ongoing debate about whether it would be morally acceptable to do a human challenge trial to test these vaccines like basically there is some risk created obviously you would do ahuman challenge trials in healthy people who were already very healthy ideally probably young people with an extremely
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