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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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