“You've got to balance the compassionate-use aspect with trying to figure out whether it works.”

— Anthony Fauci

Quoted by the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/09/health/in-ebola-outbreak-who-should-get-experimental-drug.html?_r=0 (August 9, 2014), regarding the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.

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