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Britain to infect healthy individuals with coronavirus for vaccine trials
The Hill ^ | 10 20 2020 | Celine Castronuovo

Posted on 10/20/2020 10:02:18 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

British scientists on Tuesday announced plans to launch the first COVID-19 human challenge trials in which researchers will intentionally infect a sample of healthy volunteers with the virus in order to speed up the testing of potential vaccines.

According to The Washington Post, the research, scheduled to begin in January, will be led by scientists at Imperial College London and funded by the British government.

Fewer than 100 volunteers between the ages of 18 and 30 will have a laboratory-grown strain of COVID-19 blown into their noses and will be quarantined in a private unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London, where they will undergo regular testing over a two- to three-week period.

According to the Post, the study aims to determine the minimal amount of virus necessary to cause an active infection in the volunteers’ upper respiratory system.

Later in the spring, the scientists hope to add more volunteers, who will be treated with candidate vaccines and then exposed to the virus to see how well the vaccines protect them.

SNIP

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; coronavirus; vaccine
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Imagine the headlines if Trump approved this here.
1 posted on 10/20/2020 10:02:18 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Hey, it’s a living.

Or not. :)


2 posted on 10/20/2020 10:03:55 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: yesthatjallen

Dr. Mengle, Calling Dr. Mengle...please pick up the white courtesy phone...Dr. Fauci is waiting!


3 posted on 10/20/2020 10:05:09 AM PDT by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: yesthatjallen

Shouldn’t they have a much, much larger sample?


4 posted on 10/20/2020 10:08:00 AM PDT by dsc (Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Or they could just open up a tens of million dose trial to every patriotic American who is willing to take an experimental vaccine then forgo any social distancing,masks none of that and see how many get sick vs those that don’t. The results will come back real fast and you can let all those people have immunity passports once you find the one that works. I personally would risk my health to take a vaccine for the country then walk around and see if it works. It’s the patriotic thing to-do


5 posted on 10/20/2020 10:09:00 AM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici")
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To: yesthatjallen

“I don’t want to go on the cart.”


6 posted on 10/20/2020 10:14:53 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: yesthatjallen

according to the CDC, survival rates for covid infections in this age group are more than 99.98%. So one out of 5000

If there are 100 study participants age 18-30, an average of 1/50th of 1 person will die. OK, there are all kinds of other variables.
But this shows you how wildly overstated the danger is for this disease for younger people.

How dangerous the vaccine itself is, i have no idea


7 posted on 10/20/2020 10:15:35 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: yesthatjallen

Will they be testing different strains of cv19?


8 posted on 10/20/2020 10:27:24 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: yesthatjallen

So, this isn’t the Babylon Bee.


9 posted on 10/20/2020 10:28:22 AM PDT by moovova
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To: yesthatjallen

Well yeah. How else are you supposed to test a vaccine? We’ll be doing it too when we get to human trials, if aren’t already.


10 posted on 10/20/2020 10:30:20 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: Don Corleone

Google “Tuskeegee Study” and then ask yourselves why Blacks always vote Democrat?


11 posted on 10/20/2020 10:30:43 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: dsc

Eventually they will. You scale up, so if something bad happens you aren’t killing a whole bunch of people.


12 posted on 10/20/2020 10:31:07 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: yesthatjallen

Coronavirus: a disease so deadly you have to test people to be certain they have it.


13 posted on 10/20/2020 10:36:37 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: yesthatjallen

As I understand it, virtually all these vaccine trials for safety and efficacy are being done on younger populations without comorbidities.

What possibly could go wrong with that approach, I wonder?


14 posted on 10/20/2020 10:38:30 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: discostu

Actually, this sort of vaccine “challenge test” is usually only done on animals.


15 posted on 10/20/2020 10:39:20 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Statistics are stated various ways. Like 99.xx% survival rate for young.

OTOH, of all those who have died of the disease — 80% were over age 65. 20% were younger. 20% seem rare to you?


16 posted on 10/20/2020 10:44:54 AM PDT by Owen
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To: discostu

(Facepalm) Should have thought of that.


17 posted on 10/20/2020 10:56:42 AM PDT by dsc (Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Horror movies are made of this.

I think messing around and fast tracking with a vaccine/"cure" can be quite tricky and it can mess with the natural essence of immunity. Maybe it creates another virus that will wipe everything out. Maybe I watched too many apocalypse movies but I still think government is as asinine on screen as it is in real life.

18 posted on 10/20/2020 11:12:03 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: 9YearLurker

At first yes. But because none of the animals have the exact same reactions as humans, either to vaccines or illnesses, eventually you have to test on humans. There’s no way to 100% know how it will do in humans until you do. Even with all the really cool modeling and cellular tech we have. In the end biology is just has too many variables.


19 posted on 10/20/2020 11:27:00 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: yesthatjallen

And that’s the rub... Healthy individuals have nothing to fear from this virus... I.E... It doesn’t kill healthy people, it only kills those who’s immune systems are compromised... So why were we all forced to hide indoors for 3 months?


20 posted on 10/20/2020 11:27:28 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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