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You can speed up clinical trials by running larger ones at earlier stages. This risks more deaths from bad medicines, which may still be worth it in a pandemic.
by jefftk 7y ago
You can speed up clinical trials by running larger ones at earlier stages. This risks more deaths from bad medicines, which may still be worth it in a pandemic.
- jfk13 7y agoThough the people dying (or losing their friends and families) from the bad medicines might not see it that way.
- bluGill 7y agoWhen people are dying in mass numbers from not being in the trail though...
- WaltPurvis 7y agoLarge clinical trials require large numbers of patients, which thankfully we don't have, and also what we're trying to avoid.
- jefftk 7y agoIf things get bad enough that this is worth the risk, we will have large numbers of patients