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Tangentially relevant to AI safety through biosecurity and pandemic preparedness angles; 1Day Sooner's model of accelerating medical countermeasures is sometimes cited in discussions about responding to biological risks, including those potentially exacerbated by AI capabilities.
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1Day Sooner is a nonprofit organization that advocates for human challenge trials in medical research, where volunteers are intentionally exposed to pathogens to accelerate vaccine and treatment development. The organization gained prominence during COVID-19 by recruiting volunteers willing to participate in challenge trials to speed up vaccine testing. Their work intersects with biosafety, pandemic preparedness, and ethical frameworks around accelerating medical countermeasures.
Key Points
- •1Day Sooner recruits and advocates for volunteers willing to participate in human challenge trials to accelerate medical research timelines
- •The organization became prominent during COVID-19, arguing challenge trials could shave months off vaccine development and save lives
- •Raises important ethical questions about informed consent, acceptable risk, and utilitarian tradeoffs in medical research
- •Relevant to biosecurity and pandemic preparedness discussions, including how to rapidly develop countermeasures against engineered or natural pathogens
- •Demonstrates how altruistic volunteer networks can potentially accelerate responses to biological threats
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# 1Day Sooner
1Day Sooner
Public health nonprofit
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| Founded | March 2020[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Day_Sooner#cite_note-1DayAbout-1) |
| Type | [Nonprofit organization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization "Nonprofit organization") |
| Focus | Human challenge studies, Covid-19, public health policy |
| Key people | Joshua Morrison (Founder) |
| Website | [1daysooner.org](https://1daysooner.org/) |
1Day Sooner
**1Day Sooner** is a nonprofit that advocates for people who want to participate in medical research, in particular human challenge trials.[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Day_Sooner#cite_note-Piper2021-2) 1Day Sooner began in March 2020 in response to the [COVID-19 pandemic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic "COVID-19 pandemic"), organizing people willing to volunteer in [human challenge trials](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_challenge_trial "Human challenge trial") as a means to speed development of [vaccines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine "Vaccine") against the disease. 1Day Sooner's advocacy for COVID-19 challenge trials was met with both support and opposition among the public, scientists, and [bioethicists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioethics "Bioethics"). COVID-19 challenge trials were ultimately implemented in the United Kingdom.
1Day Sooner also conducts advocacy work on public health policy and for challenge trials in other infectious diseases.
## Covid-19 challenge trials
1Day Sooner was established by Josh Morrison, a founder of kidney donation group [Waitlist Zero](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitlist_Zero "Waitlist Zero"), and Sophie Rose, a [Stanford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University "Stanford University") biology graduate.[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Day_Sooner#cite_note-NatGeo2020-3)[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Day_Sooner#cite_note-MarieClaireUK-4) Morrison and Rose were motivated to do so after reading about how human challenge trials in young, healthy volunteers could potentially accelerate [COVID-19 vaccine development](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_COVID-19_vaccine_development "History of COVID-19 vaccine development"), and set up an initial signup website in March 2020 for people inter
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