Sean Doyle Coronavirus Vaccine Trial Using Method That's Never Been Used in Humans (CNN)
Sean Doyle signed up for a coronavirus vaccine trial using a method that's never been used in humans. Here's why.
Despite all his medical knowledge, 31-year-old medical student and Ph. D. candidate Sean Doyle couldn't know for certain all the risks of the injection he had just received in his right shoulder at Emory University Hospital. Yes, of course he was told of the potential side effects, such as soreness in his arm, a fever, malaise. But when you are among the first people in the world to receive a vaccine injection, the real answer about the risks is simply "we don't know."
In fact, it's those very questions that he is helping us answer.
Sean is helping all of us figure out if it is safe, by putting up his hand first and volunteering. With that injection, Sean had become a critical part of the fastest moving vaccine trials in the history of the world, a vaccine for Covid-19.
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