{"title":"Human challenge studies in the time of COVID-19: Pros and cons","authors":"Sonia Carboni","doi":"10.54920/scto.2021.rawatch.5.31","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Can we speed up coronavirus vaccine development? A human challenge study, in which volunteers would be deliberately infected with coronavirus, could help in theory. In this article, two collaborators from the CTU Geneva explore the potential benefits and the risks associated with SARS-CoV-2 challenge studies.","PeriodicalId":419230,"journal":{"name":"Regulatory Affairs Watch","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Regulatory Affairs Watch","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.54920/scto.2021.rawatch.5.31","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Can we speed up coronavirus vaccine development? A human challenge study, in which volunteers would be deliberately infected with coronavirus, could help in theory. In this article, two collaborators from the CTU Geneva explore the potential benefits and the risks associated with SARS-CoV-2 challenge studies.