A new day for human challenge trials?

Trends Mol Med

Center for Population-Level Bioethics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Electronic address:

Published: July 2022

Two years into the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and following several hot debates, the world's first COVID-19 human challenge trial has recently been published by Killingley et al. We review its findings and explain why this particular juncture in time makes additional challenge trials for COVID-19 and for other diseases justified and important.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9124157PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molmed.2022.05.002DOI Listing

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