US government reportedly begins preparing for Covid-19 challenge trials. Are they ethical?
Controversial human challenge trials for potential Covid-19 vaccines reportedly have a new booster — the US government.
Scientists working for the government have begun manufacturing a strain of the novel coronavirus that could be used in such studies, Reuters reported Friday morning. The trials would enroll healthy volunteers to be vaccinated and then intentionally infected with a weakened coronavirus.
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