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The contribution of vaccine trial participants has been crucial to the entire process, which often goes unnoticed

Bharath Manjesh New Delhi
‘It was worth taking the risk’ — Why Covid vaccine volunteers signed up for trials

As the world awaits a Covid-19 vaccine with bated breath, the contribution of vaccine trial participants, which has been crucial to the entire process, has often gone unnoticed.

Thousands of these faceless participants volunteered to get injected with the trial vaccine candidates in the past few months across the world, with the sole intention of bettering science — even at their own peril. But what motivated them to participate? Read more here

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