By Brian Nguyen One of the biggest challenges to vaccine development is determining whether or not the vaccines themselves are safe and effective. The standard process is typically slow and takes a long time to determine results. Challenge trials speed up this process by taking healthy adult volunteers and deliberately exposing them to the virus in a controlled setting to see if the vaccine will work. Critics of the idea argue that COVID-19 is too risky — there is no good treatment for it if people ultimately become severely ill. However, proponents say the benefits outweigh the risks — healthy young adults are not likely to become severely ill. The time saved on vaccine development could...
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