Some Ethical Guidelines for Controlled Human COVID-19 Infection Studies on Human Volunteers

May 8, 2020

(Medical Xpress) – A panel of experts led by Northwestern University bioethicist Seema Shah has published a Policy Forum paper in the journal Science outlining what they describe as an ethical way to test possible COVID-19 vaccines on human volunteers. Such testing would involve exposing the volunteers to the virus after inoculation to see if it prevents an infection.