Speed is not an important variable for government researchers outside of a situation like this where you need a fast response to a pandemic.
Speed matters a bit more for big pharma where it matters if you have one additional year of patent protection for your drug if you develop a year faster but even there the cost tradeoffs are in favor of doing animal testing.
True. The downside would be that animal testing is slower, which is I think why jimrandomh was proposing human testing.
Speed is not an important variable for government researchers outside of a situation like this where you need a fast response to a pandemic.
Speed matters a bit more for big pharma where it matters if you have one additional year of patent protection for your drug if you develop a year faster but even there the cost tradeoffs are in favor of doing animal testing.