COVID-19 vaccine development: New guidelines for ethical approach to infecting trial volunteers

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200527190329.htm

Dr Adair Richards at the University of Warwick has developed a set of ethical guidelines to guide researchers on an ethical approach to deliberately infecting volunteers who have been given a vaccine candidate with COVID-19.

He argues that this may significantly speed up the process of vaccine development and potentially save many lives. The work has been externally double-blind peer-reviewed and is published today (28 May) in the Journal of Medical Ethics.