Vaccine test:UK volunteers to be given virus

[Still Waters]

British volunteers are to be deliberately infected with COVID-19 to test whether a vaccine offers any protection.

In the first trial of its kind, participants will be injected with an experimental vaccine and around a month later exposed to Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes the disease.

According to FT, the studies - which are known as human challenge trials - will begin in January and are government funded.

It is reported that the trials will take place in a secure facility in Whitechapel, east London, and that 2,000 potential volunteers have signed up in the UK.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-uk-volunteers-to-be-deliberately-infected-with-covid-19-to-test-vaccine-12079590

[stereologist]

That is really amazing. This has been considered to be an unethical method. But this is a pandemic and ethics must adapt to the situations involved.

Reading the article I did not know that the recent typhoid vaccine work involved exposure to the pathogen.