> In the case of a pandemic, we need to make better use of volunteers.
You’d run the risk of have a non-representative sample and wrongly estimating the effectiveness of the vaccine as well as possibly missing side effects.
1daysooner.org lists almost 40,000 volunteers, and that's without anyone official even asking for them. And you need far fewer subjects in a challenge trial than a normal trial.
You’d run the risk of have a non-representative sample and wrongly estimating the effectiveness of the vaccine as well as possibly missing side effects.