UK challenge trial will infect volunteers with Covid-19 to test vaccines
Getty Images Finding the best ways to do good. A group of daring volunteers will soon become infected with Covid-19 — on purpose. They’re young. They’re healthy. And they want scientists to give them a candidate vaccine and then deliberately expose them to the coronavirus, so we can all find out faster whether the vaccine is effective. This is called a human challenge trial, and it’s set to kick off in the UK within a month, now that an ethics board has given it the necessary approval. Scientists have run such trials in the past for influenza, malaria, typhoid, dengue, and chol...
Source: vox.com