Article 56N73 Covid-19: lack of diversity threatens to undermine vaccine trials, experts warn

Covid-19: lack of diversity threatens to undermine vaccine trials, experts warn

by
Oliver Milman
from Science | The Guardian on (#56N73)

Oxford and Moderna trials draw from strikingly white cohort, for a virus that has disproportionately affected people of colour

The remarkably fast progress of two leading contenders for an effective coronavirus vaccine has raised hopes the pandemic may be speedily tamed. But some experts have warned the vaccine trials risk being undermined by a lack of diversity among their participants.

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