re: #268 Colère Tueur de Lapin

And that gets back to my post about ethics in vaccine testing. This is a volunteer program and Meridian is trying (I assume) to skew towards people who are more likely to be exposed. In a more normal time, a trial wouldn’t be selecting for the population that this trial is looking for; it is normally unethical without a therapy to be skewing this way, but this is not a normal time.

And (guessing) this method made the approval wonks less uncomfortable than an intentional exposure to SARS-COV-2 that would be completely out of normal trial ethics without a viable therapy.