This essay, on how profits come before people in the globalization of clinical research, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 26 April 2020, under the headline ‘We’re desperate for a coronavirus cure, but at what cost to the human guinea pigs?’ Last week, in Oxford, the first volunteers in the first European human trial were injected with a potential coronavirus vaccine. At the same time, Pakistan’s National Institute of Health received an offer from the Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinopharm International […]

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