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Episode: Episode 419: The Case for Challenge Trials
Description: Today’s podcast is about an idea that I’ve come in contact with a couple of times over the past few months. Steve Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics and a professor at the University of Chicago, had an idea for how we could accelerate the vaccine trial process to save more lives and economic problems. This idea is called the challenge trial, in which people are given the vaccine and then are exposed to the disease to see the true effectiveness of the vaccine more quickly and efficiently. In the podcast, you’ll hear more details about this idea and some t...