Is it ethical, or even possible, that deliberately exposing healthy volunteers to harmful pathogens would mean faster vaccine research for everyone? That's the question being considered by both sides of the debate over human challenge trials, one of the most hotly contested topics in medicine today, thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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