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It basically means they are just giving you the vaccine and as part of the study they will not be exposing you to Covid-19 on purpose.
by raiyu 6y ago
It basically means they are just giving you the vaccine and as part of the study they will not be exposing you to Covid-19 on purpose.
- GekkePrutser 6y agoMakes sense. It wouldn't really be ethical to do so with an unproven vaccine (and it was proven, this trial wouldn't be necessary). If they do the trial in large enough numbers, many participants will get exposes in their normal lives anyway. I assume they will target hotspot areas.
- schoen 6y ago> It wouldn't really be ethical to do so with an unproven vaccine (and it was proven, this trial wouldn't be necessary). That is a thing that people do sometimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_challenge_study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_challenge_study There has been a debate about also doing it with COVID-19: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#Proposed_challenge_studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#Proposed_chal...