Article 52P2F We're desperate for a coronavirus cure, but at what cost to the human guinea pigs? | Kenan Malik

We're desperate for a coronavirus cure, but at what cost to the human guinea pigs? | Kenan Malik

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Kenan Malik
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Big drugs companies have long favoured outsourcing clinical trials to poor countries with lax regulations to cut costs and maximise profit

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Last week, in Oxford, the first volunteers in the first European human trial were injected with a potential coronavirus vaccine. At the same time, Pakistan's National Institute of Health received an offer from the Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinopharm International Corp to take part in a trial of another potential coronavirus vaccine.

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