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Bioethics, public policy, emerging technologies, at Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Mar 18, 2020 8 tweets 2 min read
The government announced Monday that a healthy volunteer in Seattle is the first person in the U.S. to receive a dose of an experimental coronavirus vaccine as part of a new clinical trial. Let’s take a brief look at some of the bioethics issues this trial raises. #COVIDー19 Regulators require that a manufacturer show a product is safe and effective before it can be marketed and sold. While not strictly required, researchers almost always take the step of using lab animals before recruiting human volunteers.