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Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Challenge Trials

challenge trials would involve deliberately infecting a much smaller number of people than you would have in a normal trial with covet. 20 thousand people, i think it is, have already express a willingness to participate in challenge trials through a group called one day sooner. So there's a ready body of people recruiting. Presumably would not be anywhere near the challenge that it is with 50 thousand volunteers. And then, in terms of the time frame, you're infecting them on day one, so you're not waiting months and months and months for people to contract things.

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