Thalidomide and the ‘Elephant Man’ trial help explain why any coronavirus vaccine must go through the proper process, writes Leigh Fell, chief executive of clinical research organisation Caritas Neuro Solutions.
Understandably and increasingly, people have been asking me questions about how treatments and vaccines for this novel strain of coronavirus will be developed and why it will take up to a year or more to come into general use. So I thought I would explain a little about the clinical trials process in order to help people understand.
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