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Comment by nostromo

We could have tested it in two weeks with paid volunteers.

The pay for brave vaccine testers could have literally been $1m and we’d have saved several trillion bucks and potentially over a million lives. Hell, make it $10m or $100m and you'd still save a ton of money.

We've done this for several other viruses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_challenge_study

parent nostromo 5 years ago

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