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News: October/November 2020

Ethicists shadow vaccine research • David Hume gets cancelled • Philosopher tackles Tour de France — News reports by Anja Steinbauer

Ethics of Covid Vaccinations

The intense worldwide search for a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine has given rise to several new areas of ethical debate. Both the development and the administration of a possible vaccine throw up various moral considerations. A paper by Lisa Tambornino and Dirk Lanzerath published in July in Research Ethics gives an idea of the main concerns. It outlines the complexities of balancing the need for a quick result with the ethics of a hastened testing process. It considers the suggestion that the last step should be a human challenge trial, where volunteers allow themselves to be injected with the virus to test the vaccine.

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