Lesterman/Shutterstock September 24, 2020 Coronavirus: why I support the world’s first COVID vaccine challenge trial Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford At a secret location in London, volunteers will receive a COVID vaccine and subsequently be deliberately infected with the coronavirus.
There’s a faster way to complete vaccine trials, but is it ethical? Skaman306/Moment via Getty Images August 24, 2020 Challenge trials for a coronavirus vaccine are unethical – except for in one unlikely scenario Ben Bramble, Princeton University Challenge trials – purposefully exposing volunteers to the coronavirus – could speed up the development of a vaccine. But there are serious ethical concerns with this approach.
solarseven/Shutterstock June 5, 2020 Infecting a volunteer with coronavirus to develop a vaccine – here’s what consent should look like Maximilian Kiener, University of Oxford There is a growing call for so-called challenge trials to speed up vaccine development.