As it became clear that the solution to the COVID pandemic would come from medical research, many people volunteered for human challenge trials.
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There are many scientific and ethical challenges ahead. But these types of trials have helped in the development of vaccines against a few diseases. Could they do the same for COVID-19?
Thousands of people around the world have said they are willing to be exposed to COVID-19 to test new vaccines. Since we don’t fully understand the long-term effects of the disease, is this ethical?
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Infectious Disease Ethics Fellow, Ethox & Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, Univeristy of Oxford. Adjunct, Monash University
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Professor of Bioethics, Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University, Monash University
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Professor, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Professor of Research Ethics, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of medicine, epidemiology & biostatistics, and philosophy, Western University