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Not forcefully. He said paid volunteers. Why does the idea of challenge trials cause a furious reaction? Let's compare it to the space shuttle: 135 missions wit
by mysterypie 6y ago
Not forcefully. He said paid volunteers. Why does the idea of challenge trials cause a furious reaction? Let's compare it to the space shuttle: 135 missions with 2 missions in which everyone died. That's a case fatality rate of 1.5% -- in the neighborhood of the Covid CFR. And I'd expect a challenge trial on young healthy volunteers to have a much lower CFR. Why is risking people for the shuttle OK, but risking people for a vaccine that benefits all of humanity not OK?
- krsdcbl 6y agoThere's two big issues with this approach: 1) death is but only the worst outcome. Being on the space shuttle does bring risk, yes, but not a 50/50 chance of a significant impact to your general health. 2) you'll end up testing the vaccines largely on marginalized population and people with heavy financial problems, misrepresenting the population at large and showing biased result.