Challenge trials face too many ethical and logistical hurdles to go forward, experts say

Four Liberal MPs and health experts recently penned an op-ed arguing that challenge trials are worth the risk.

Canada's Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam, pictured June 15, 2020, arriving at the West Block to hold a press conference to update Canadians on the response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Tam has said that vaccines won't be a silver bullet in fighting COVID-19. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY AIDAN CHAMANDY

September 14, 2020

The race to develop the COVID-19 vaccine, or a series of vaccines, is well underway and at the time of writing, three clinical trials are in phase three, with dozens more in phases one and two and in the pre-clinical stage. On...

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