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Jessica Flanigan argues that human challenge studies are ethical and should be used widely in both the COVID-19 and future pandemics. Human challenge studies involve intentionally exposing healthy volunteers to an infectious agent, in this case the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in a controlled environment. She argues that challenge studies would speed vaccine development, including vaccines for viral variants, and pose acceptable benefits and risks to participants. Further, she argues that prohibiting volunteers from participating in a SARS-CoV-2 challenge study is paternalistic and wrong. In my essay, I take issue with each of these claims. First, Flanigan tells us that SARS-CoV-2 challenge studies “enable researchers to test the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other therapeutics more quickly, which has substantial public health benefits.” On these grounds she asserts that had challenge studies been permitted when they were first proposed, an effective vaccine would have been develope

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