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by BurningFrog 1959 days ago
Would results from trials breaking western ethical norms be accepted by FDA?
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The risks would be no greater than others done for national defense. In a pandemic? Yeah.
The US Army would do it, sure.

The FDA works in a whole other way.

Safety rules are good and valid. They are not a suicide pact, however. With a once-in-a-century global pandemic, brave volunteers should be allowed (through even earlier large-n phase 1 and 2 groups) to help expedite the safety approval of something that can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans and millions of people worldwide.