From the New York Times
If the link doesn't work, search for "Do Early R.S.V. Vaccine Trials Have a Henrietta Lacks Story?" by Charles Blow.
He poses the question:
RSV vaccine trial among the underprivileged black and poor children definitely by passed one of the most important ethical principle of social research and that is doing the maximum benefit and minimum harm to human subjects. With the news article stating that no records for informed consents from these children or their parents were found on investigation, the trial did not succeed in respecting the lives of the participants. Giving compensation allowance to the affected families is nowhere even near to the mental trauma and stress that these families have suffered, hence the a few thousand dollars will not revert anything. The country must train its scientifc committees about the ethics related to research on human population and strictly monitor the vaccine trials. The population selection must be random so that everyone has an equal chance of being selected rather than targeting a weaker strata of society. I am sure that their lives cost much more than that.