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by ahpearce 2293 days ago
> rapidly test the efficacy of a vaccine

How do you test the efficacy if you don't know who you're injecting? Maybe it works really well on a certain population, and reacts harmfully to people with some pre-existing genetic trait or condition. You wouldn't know, because you took a random set of volunteers.

If you're going to counter and say "we'd still do the pre-analysis on the volunteers"... Well, that's what takes time.