Pint of Science 2021: How can science help us in a pandemic, Adriano Mannino
Channel: Pint of Science Germany
Date: 2021-10-07

Organized by the Freiburg team for Pint of Science Germany 2021. 
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How can science help us in a pandemic?

It is obvious that we cannot understand a catastrophe of microbiological origin without the help of science. But what if, when it comes to pandemic measures, scientific experts disagree or change their minds a lot? How can we rely on science when science does not speak with a uniform voice? Tools from philosophy can help us answer such questions. The same goes for the question of which useful but risky experiments should or shouldn't be performed. If we had performed Human Challenge Trials back in February 2020, in which human subjects are vaccinated and deliberately infected with a (potentially deadly) virus, we could have had our vaccines ready by summer 2020. We chose to not do it, for ethical reasons. Was this the right call? Or would there have been ways to tap into science's full potential by designing ethically acceptable Human Challenge Trials?

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Pint of Science DE 2021 was held online on May 17-19th, 2021. 

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Video edited by Albane Ruaud (@AlbaneRuaud) for the Pint of Science Germany team :)