The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford

Re:The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine ... by tinus_hn on Friday April 24, 2020 @09:21AM (#22967644)

Well that settles it, we better wait 30 years before we start testing a vaccine because otherwise it may be dangerous. And then wait 30 years again before releasing it.

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Re:The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine ... by kerkeslager on Friday April 24, 2020 @10:22AM (#22968206)

Or, you know, test the vaccine the same way we test the flu vaccine every year, which takes a few months, and doesn't require abandoning basic medical ethics.

There are actually steps we can take to speed this up without abandoning medical ethics. It certainly makes sense to have the first human trials be on medical workers, because it has the highest chance of producing benefit for them, and the results will be clearer in populations with a higher infection rate.

But we're not talking about those because you guys would rather talk about injecting people with coronavirus based on a poor understanding of both risk and medical ethics.

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