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Larissa MacFarquhar on the ethics of a human-challenge trial, which would infect volunteers with SARS-CoV2 to test a vaccine. Plus, Jelani Cobb on the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery. (article)
Larissa MacFarquhar on a potentially lethal form of medical research. Plus, Jelani Cobb on the killing of Ahmaud Arbery; and a short story about a very boring Memorial Day. (episode)
Larissa MacFarquhar talks with a would-be participant in a human-challenge trial, in which trial subjects are–hypothetically—infected with SARS-CoV2 to test a potential vaccine.
In the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, a legal scholar sees a fatal confusion of citizen’s arrest, stand-your-ground law, and racial profiling.
When her students were sent home from school owing to the coronavirus outbreak, an English teacher assigned them Albert Camus’s novel “The Plague.”
In Peter Cameron’s short story, an angst-ridden teen wages a campaign of silence against the stepfather he can’t abide.