Riding In Cars With Researchers
Riding in Cars with Researchers - COVID-19 Research Ethics
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 0:06:38
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We're in a situation today where we've got ethical challenges pulling in opposite directions, and that's what's creating difficulty for Sponsors today. We have an immense need to do more COVID-19 vaccine research, and we already have several that are FDA emergency use authorization approved in the US and others internationally. And so now you have a situation where patients are in research trials, they've given of themselves to be in a research trial. Depending upon if they are healthcare workers or frontline workers, you're in a situation where they could get the vaccine outside of the research trial.Do you un-blind that patient? Meaning do we find out if the patient got the vaccine or the placebo in the research trial, or not? Here are the ethical challenges. If I look at an individual patient who is 75 years old and has type two diabetes and she entered a research trial, and now she can qualify to get a known vaccine outside of a research trial from the health department. If