{"id":4667,"date":"2020-05-15T05:48:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T09:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2020-05-15T05:49:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T09:49:59","slug":"there-may-be-a-dangerous-shortcut-to-a-coronavirus-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/content-type\/there-may-be-a-dangerous-shortcut-to-a-coronavirus-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"“There May Be a Dangerous Shortcut to a Coronavirus Vaccine”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\n\t\t New York Times <\/i> article by Spencer Bokat-Lindell from April 30, 2020\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

This article discusses the difficulties behind and potential benefits of a “human-challenge” trial: intentionally infecting volunteers to see if a vaccine works.<\/p>\n

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This article from the New York times discusses the idea of a human-challenge trial: intentionally infecting volunteers to see if it would work. The discussion mirrors the ethical quandries of doing randomized controlled trials in economics settings, where researchers suspect that the “treatment” might not be good for people. Written April 30, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"tpl-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[60,723,724,727],"tags":[695,729,728,576,730],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-type","category-covid","category-covid-news","category-news","tag-covid","tag-covid-news","tag-news","tag-news-article","tag-nyt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4669,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}