Executive summary: The post argues effective altruists should volunteer for upcoming hepatitis C human challenge studies, which could accelerate vaccine development and avert substantial disease burden.
Key points:
Hepatitis C challenge studies have strong expert support and could validate the challenge model for faster vaccine development.
Participation from effective altruists could help optimize study design for both speed and scientific rigor.
Successful hepatitis C vaccine development could demonstrate the viability of a permanent “Warp Speed 2.0” model.
Participation involves real health risks like temporary symptoms and liver monitoring, though death risk is extremely low.
Timeline acceleration could avert hundreds of thousands of infections and over 300,000 years of life lost.
Counterarguments include uncertainty around long-term benefits, potential reputational risks, and other causes possibly having higher impact.
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Executive summary: The post argues effective altruists should volunteer for upcoming hepatitis C human challenge studies, which could accelerate vaccine development and avert substantial disease burden.
Key points:
Hepatitis C challenge studies have strong expert support and could validate the challenge model for faster vaccine development.
Participation from effective altruists could help optimize study design for both speed and scientific rigor.
Successful hepatitis C vaccine development could demonstrate the viability of a permanent “Warp Speed 2.0” model.
Participation involves real health risks like temporary symptoms and liver monitoring, though death risk is extremely low.
Timeline acceleration could avert hundreds of thousands of infections and over 300,000 years of life lost.
Counterarguments include uncertainty around long-term benefits, potential reputational risks, and other causes possibly having higher impact.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.