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Researchers call for relaxed standards in race to find coronavirus vaccine

Posted by skybrian
Tags: coronaviruses.covid19, vaccines, researchers, clinical trials, tabloid, author.natalie oneill, source.nypost, short read
https://nypost.com/2020/03/26/coronavirus-vaccine-can-be-expedited-if-the-healthy-volunteer-to-be-infected/

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Title
Coronavirus vaccine could be expedited if the healthy volunteer to be infected
Published
Mar 26 2020
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342 words

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  1. skybrian
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    From the article: [...] Here is Technology Review's article and here is the paper.

    From the article:

    As regulations currently stand, a volunteer must go through three phases when testing a vaccine — receiving a small dose, reaction observation, then waiting months to become naturally exposed to the virus.

    [...]

    But the new study notes that worldwide quarantines will slow that process even further — and proposes that a group of 100 people be vaccinated, infected and deliberately exposed in a week.

    “I think regulators will be open to it,” one of the authors, Peter Smith, told the Times.

    Here is Technology Review's article and here is the paper.

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