Eli5: how do drug trials work for risky medicine so that it doesn’t kill those participating?
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Drug testing happens in phases. If it is a treatment that still has a high mortality rate, then it won’t move to the human trials phase. Government oversight limits the risk that researchers can take with human life, so a drug with a high risk of death won’t be administered to human test subjects. That phase of research is usually left to rats/rabbits
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