[ExI] Human Challenge Trials

[John Clark]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 8:38 AM Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> Why do we have to infect people who have not already been exposed?
> Aren't there already plenty of people who have been exposed and recovered
> from whatever level of symptoms? *


I don't understand your questions. How on earth can somebody who has
already recovered from COVID-19 on their own help us figure out if a new
experimental vaccine works or not?

*> The way medicine is practiced in US, the population of survivors has an
> unusual prevalence of eating pb&j for lunch... so eating pb&j for lunch
> (but only lunch) becomes standard prophylaxis for covid.*
>

Huh?!

*> Maybe there is a drug that "helps" but given the overplayed hand of
> pharma, I'm going to remain skeptical of any single pill or miracle cure. *
>

I don't understand your point. Why not a miracle cure against COVID-19?
We've had a "miracle cure", aka a vaccine, against Smallpox for centuries
and today we have additional "miracle cures" against Polio, Diphtheria,
Measles, Mumps, Shingles, Tetanus, Chickenpox, Cholera and dozens of other
deadly diseases, and those vaccines have saved the lives of BILLIONS of
people over the years. So why not a vaccine against COVID-19 too?

 John K Clark
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