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| Human challenge trials for vaccines involve giving volunteers vaccine candidates, then deliberating exposing them to the disease, to test the efficacy of a vaccine candidate more quickly than standard vaccine trials. | Human challenge trials for vaccines involve giving volunteers vaccine candidates, then deliberating exposing them to the disease, to test the efficacy of a vaccine candidate more quickly than standard vaccine trials. | ||
| - | Challenge trials are not a technological temptation which has been fully resisted: they have been used for dozens of diseases, including some recently. They are a technological temptation which has been significantly slowed in response to ethical concerns. | + | Challenge trials are not a technological temptation which has been fully resisted: they have been used for dozens of diseases, including some recently. They have been significantly slowed in response to ethical concerns. |
| - | For COVID-19, if challenge trials had been done faster, we estimate that they could have allowed vaccines to be developed a few months more quickly. The value resisted by slowing this technological temptation is trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands or millions of lives lost. | + | For COVID-19, if challenge trials had been done faster, we estimate that they could have allowed vaccines to be developed a few months more quickly, which could have saved trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands or millions of lives lost. |
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