B1 – Intermediate
Over 25,000 people in the US have volunteered to be part of COVID-19 vaccine trials. They will help find a safe and effective vaccine faster. This will help us to see the end of this pandemic soon.
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Discussion Questions:
- What are the risks and benefits of clinical trial vaccines?
- Would you volunteer for a vaccine study? Why or why not?
- Are human trials for vaccines worth the risk? Explain your point.
6 replies on “Vaccine Volunteers”
What are the risks and benefits of clinical trials vaccine?
I think that the risk of participating in clinical trials vaccine are the adverse events, like that the patients participating in the rest of the clinical trials. The clinical trials are part of development for every medicine and the volunteers or the patients that decide to participate in them are agree and aware with the unknown effects or adverse events that could happen. The benefits of these clinical trials are benefits for all us. All people will benefit of new medicines used in a lot sickness.
Would you volunteer for a COVID-19 vaccine study? Why or why not?
Yes of course. As part of the clinical trials world ( I am CRA), and as person that it is difficult scare me, I have not problem in participate in COVID-19 vaccine study. Also, I think that this action is very necessary in this moment and if nobody participate in this type of trials we never would have new medicines.
Are human trials for vaccines worth the risk?
Following the way of the prior question, yes of course. I know that the associates risk to the new vaccines exists, but I think that the risks associates of the own sickness are worse. The vaccine decrease the mortality rase of many sickness, even with the risks associates to them.
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Vaccine trials are necessary to know the effectiveness in humanity as well as its side effects. However, a sample of people must take health risks when testing the vaccine.
In general terms, the progress of humanity is usually associated with the sacrifice of a few. Also in health.
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1.What are the risks and benefits of clinical trials vaccine?
A benefit is that you can help people and save lives. And a risk is that you don’t know how your body will react.
2.Would you volunteer for a COVID-19 vaccine study? Why or why not?
I would like to be a volunteer because you can help many people and if it has any side effect on me it would affect me less than older people
3.Are human trials for vaccines worth the risk?
Yes, because if they make in animals, it would´t known if it works in humans.
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