Find the accompanying podcast here.My first question for Nathan was why he volunteered for a vaccine trial.
He told us that he was a Peace Corps volunteer in his early career, during which he participated in several studies that investigated experimental treatments. Nathan: “I had read in the press that Pfizer [were] looking for volunteers for their trial.
And I made a calculation that, at this point, they had 15,000 participants already. [As] a multibillion dollar company, that had a lot at stake in [the sense] that the chances of the vaccine trial being damaging to me were pretty low.
I thought I could contribute to help advance the need for a vaccine by volunteering.”Pfizer started recruiting volunteers for their phase 3 vaccine trial in.