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House lawmakers join growing calls from medics to approve controversial 'challenge trials' of coronavirus vaccines where people are deliberately infected with COVID-19 and could die
2020-04-26
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • A group of 35 House lawmakers wrote to the FDA this week encouraging the agency to approve 'challenge trials' for COVID-19 vaccines

  • Led by Reps. Bill Foster and Donna Shalala, the group said the pandemic is a 'war' and volunteers would help 'save the lives of others'

  • The FDA said it is 'exploring all possible options' to speed up a vaccine

  • Challenge trials involve deliberately infecting people with the deadly virus to test a vaccine's effectiveness

  • The process has divided the medical community with supporters saying it will speed up a vaccine getting to market, saving lives

  • But skeptics have raised ethical concerns that volunteers could die because there is no known cure for coronavirus

  • Though no vaccine is ready for testing yet, thousands of volunteers have signed up their interest in participating in challenge trials already
Posted by:Skidmark

#11  Let. Them. Be. The. First. To. Volunteer.
Posted by: magpie   2020-04-26 15:41  

#10  'The benefit outweighs any risks': Atlanta medical student, 31, who volunteered to be injected with Ebola vaccine is now a guinea pig for potentially groundbreaking COVID-19 immunization
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-04-26 09:34  

#9  I'd expect all the people who's been telling me for months that Sars-CoV2 is just a flu, not dangerous to healthy people, to volunteer.

Heh, media first.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-04-26 09:04  

#8  Who'd want to get the flu?
Posted by: Clem   2020-04-26 08:27  

#7  Not saying I approve of something like this. But, if there's a call for volunteers - I'd expect all the people who's been telling me for months that Sars-CoV2 is just a flu, not dangerous to healthy people, to volunteer.
Not serious, just sure I'd find their excuses "why not" amusing.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-26 08:25  

#6  #4 its a bit late in some cases. The list of 'volunteers' at the Super Max probably is minimal.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-04-26 06:53  

#5  Donna Shalala's still alive? Was she exhumed for this article?
Posted by: Raj   2020-04-26 06:40  

#4  Prisons would make a great place to run such experiments. Rather than releasing felons, we should be packing them in like poorly ventilated sardines.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-04-26 00:56  

#3  "The DEADLY Coronavirus". Don't forget the 'deadly'.
Posted by: Bobby   2020-04-26 00:38  

#2  I'm going to guess our resident magic numbers worshipper will love this idea.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-26 00:37  

#1  Politicians not satisfied with being Hollyweird for ugly people, they want to be Ben Casey now too.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-26 00:36  

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