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Of course it involves some risk. But the alternative is that millions of others, many older and with compromised immune systems, would get the virus involuntari
by apsec112 7y ago
Of course it involves some risk. But the alternative is that millions of others, many older and with compromised immune systems, would get the virus involuntarily because the vaccine trials took longer to run. Is it ethical to ban research that saves thousands of lives?
- bathtub365 7y agoYou don’t know that the research will save thousands of lives, or kill thousands, until it’s done.
- brutusborn 7y agoWhat proportion of vaccine trials are successful usually? Could the probability of efficacy be estimated and used to judge if the study goes ahead? There needs to be a reasonable amount of risk taken in research, otherwise we will find it impossible to make progress.