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The ethical case for allowing medical trials that deliberately infect humans with COVID-19

  • Written by Ofer Raban, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Oregon
imageCould intentionally infecting volunteers in COVID-19 trials speed up a vaccine?AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

Despite the urgent need to beat COVID-19, health officials may be delaying the development of an effective vaccine.

Authorities in the U.S. and elsewhere are yet to authorize an ethically charged research procedure called “human challenge...

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