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Re:Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response ... by cesarb on Monday October 26, 2020 @08:35AM (#24895439)
Wikipedia tells me RCT is "randomized controlled trial", that thing they are doing where half the volunteers receive the experimental vaccine and half receive a placebo, and they wait to see how many get the disease (and how many get side effects) in each group. I don't think there's any "human challenge study" (in which they deliberately infect the volunteer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_challenge_study) so far.
Re:Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response ... by jlokier on Monday October 26, 2020 @08:38AM (#24895462)
There was a human challenge trial announced a few days ago. I.e. people are volunteering to be infected with the virus in an RCT.