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New York Times: The controversial study puts scientists in uncharted ethical territory.

Britain will become the first country to deliberately infect healthy volunteers with coronavirus, with the country's ethics body approving a "human challenge trial."

U.K. gets approval to infect healthy volunteers in world’s first coronavirus ‘challenge trial’ Karla Adam © Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP A blood sample from a volunteer is handled in the laboratory at Imperial College in London, on July 30, 2020. Imperial College is among the institutions working on developing a covid-19 vaccine. LONDON —Britain will become the first country to deliberately infect healthy volunteers with the coronavirus, now that the country's ethics body has approved a "human challenge trial." The effort, funded by the British government, aims to ac...

The first stage will gauge the smallest amount of virus needed to cause infection.

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