Passing those long lockdown hours with just podcasts to keep her company, she describes discovering the challenge trial movement -- and hearing volunteers' motivations -- as a revelatory moment. So-called human challenge trials, while sometimes controversial, are nothing new. Critics also say that challenge trials have limited use because the young, healthy people who take part don't represent the broader population. Andrew Fraser-Urquhart (right) says that human challenge trials are "something slightly different," and so it's no surprise that his son was interested. To Alastair, that's all the more reason to run a challenge trial, accelerate an end to the pandemic, and help more people in the general public avoid facing those long-term consequences.

Source: CNN October 12, 2020 05:29 UTC