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Challenge Trials—Could Deliberate Coronavirus Exposure Hasten Vaccine Development?

Educational Objective
To understand the ethical challenges involved in developing COVID-19 human challenge trials
1 Credit CME

Josh Morrison, JD, was so moved by a 2007 essay about one woman’s desperate search for a kidney that he decided he wanted to donate one. “Okay, I can save someone’s life,” the self-described nonconformist told himself.

It took a few years, but in 2011 he donated a kidney to a stranger who’d been waiting 8 years. Then in 2014, Morrison, a Harvard Law School graduate, left corporate law and cofounded Waitlist Zero, whose mission is to make it easier for patients to ask for a kidney and donors to give one.

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Josh Morrison, JD, was so moved by a 2007 essay about one woman’s desperate search for a kidney that he decided he wanted to donate one. “Okay, I can save someone’s life,” the self-described nonconformist told himself.

It took a few years, but in 2011 he donated a kidney to a stranger who’d been waiting 8 years. Then in 2014, Morrison, a Harvard Law School graduate, left corporate law and cofounded Waitlist Zero, whose mission is to make it easier for patients to ask for a kidney and donors to give one.

Living organ donation in the US has dropped because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Morrison said. After reading a March 31 article about how young, healthy individuals like himself could accelerate the development of a COVID-19 vaccine, he knew he had found another cause worthy of his passion for doing good.

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Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to:

  • 1.00 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program;;
  • 1.00 Self-Assessment points in the American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery’s (ABOHNS) Continuing Certification program;
  • 1.00 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program;
  • 1.00 Lifelong Learning points in the American Board of Pathology’s (ABPath) Continuing Certification program; and
  • 1.00 CME points in the American Board of Surgery’s (ABS) Continuing Certification program

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