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Re:The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine ... by apsec112 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @08:04PM (#22963114)
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?
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Re:The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine ... by bathtub365 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @08:39PM (#22963362)
You don’t know that the research will save thousands of lives, or kill thousands, until it’s done.
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Re:The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine ... by brutusborn on Thursday April 23, 2020 @09:59PM (#22963867)
What 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.

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