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> In the case of a pandemic, we need to make better use of volunteers. You’d run the risk of have a non-representative sample and wrongly estimating the effect
by mr_toad 6y ago
> In the case of a pandemic, we need to make better use of volunteers.
You’d run the risk of have a non-representative sample and wrongly estimating the effectiveness of the vaccine as well as possibly missing side effects.
- winston_smith 6y ago1daysooner.org lists almost 40,000 volunteers, and that's without anyone official even asking for them. And you need far fewer subjects in a challenge trial than a normal trial.