Rutgers: Ethics of Human Challenge Trials
December 10, 2020
December 10, 2020
NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Dec. 10 (TNSJou) -- Rutgers University issued the following news:
The first human challenge trial to test COVID-19 treatments and vaccines is set to begin in January in the United Kingdom. These trials, in which healthy volunteers are infected with the virus after being given different vaccines under development, have sparked ethical debates around the benefits of developing a vaccine quickly and the risks of directly exposing people to coronavirus.
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The first human challenge trial to test COVID-19 treatments and vaccines is set to begin in January in the United Kingdom. These trials, in which healthy volunteers are infected with the virus after being given different vaccines under development, have sparked ethical debates around the benefits of developing a vaccine quickly and the risks of directly exposing people to coronavirus.
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