Opinion: It's ethical to test promising coronavirus vaccines against less-promising ones

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Aug 11;117(32):18898-18901. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2014154117. Epub 2020 Jul 22.

Nir Eyal^{1

2}, Marc Lipsitch³

¹ Center for Population-Level Bioethics and Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901; nir.eyal@rutgers.edu.
² Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy, Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ 08854.
³ Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, and Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115N.E. declares no competing interest. M.L. receives research support from Pfizer, unrelated to COVID-19.

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