Master in Food Ethics and Law

UNESCO Chair in Bioethics

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  • Bioethics and Law Observatory
  • UNESCO Chair in Bioethics
  • University of Barcelona
  • Faculty of Law
  • Ave. Diagonal, 684
  • 08034 Barcelona
  • (+34) 93 403 45 46
  • obd.ub@ub.edu
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  • Master in Bioethics and Law
  • (+34) 93 403 45 46
  • master.bd@ub.edu

 

"Placebo-Controlled Trials of Covid-19 Vaccines — Why We Still Need Them"

The New England Journal of Medicine

Recent announcements that some Covid-19 vaccines are estimated to have high short-term efficacy provide new hope that vaccination will soon contribute to controlling the pandemic. The   initial   roll-out   of   limited   quantities of vaccines that are still investigational  will  provide  the  opportunity to ethically obtain piv-otal  data  to  improve  regulatory  and  public  health  decision  mak-ing, thereby increasing public and professional  confidence  in  these  and other vaccines.