Britain will be first to infect healthy volunteers with COVID-19 for research

NY Post ^ | December 26, 2020 | 5:17pm | Melanie Gray

[conservative98]

The world’s first COVID-19 human challenge is about to start.

Britain will infect 2,500 healthy volunteers with coronavirus to study how the infection behaves in the body — specifically the amount it takes before a person develops Covid-19, the Sun reported.

The government has budgeted $45 million for the research, which is being conducted by Imperial College, the National Health Service’s Royal Free Hospital and pharmaceutical company hVIVO, a pioneer in viral human challenge models.

Human challenge studies aren’t used often because of the ethical questions raised about infecting healthy people.

The Brits, ages 18 to 30, will get a dose of an experimental nasal vaccine, then be infected. The project gets underway in January; scientists expect the first results in May.

Alastair Fraser-Urquhart, 18, of Stoke-on-Trent, raised his hand because he wants to help “bring the world out of the pandemic sooner..

“I can’t let this opportunity to do something, to really do something, pass me by

[Skywise]

For SCIENCE!

[lee martell]

Sort of like volunteering to be among the first group flying to Mars. This may end up being a One Way Ticket with no return scheduled or possible.

[Cowgirl]

Tel Avev University found that UV led lights kills covid. My spa is made from IF led lights and cost a couple hundred dollars from Amazon.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Soylent Green, sorta

[Captain7seas]

Ivermectin, usually one dose cures it.
Dr. Pierre Kory - Senate testimony

[RckyRaCoCo]

How long before someone turns into Mr. Potato Head...

[BenLurkin]

England has its own Tuskegee?

[DoughtyOne]

I suggest they pull volunteers forcefully from Britain’s
leadership.

[gas_dr]

Honesty is important. One dose of ivermectin does not cure Covid.
It is an excellent drug snd has a five day course which certainly helps. But it is not a cure. Please I beg you don’t confabulate things that do not exist.

[gas_dr]

This is an unethical study.

[tinyowl]

Didn’t Cuomo already do that? Oh yeah they weren’t volunteers.

[DugwayDuke]

Should have done that months ago. Quickest way to determine if a vaccine is effective.

[Right Wing Assault]

The first to infect healthy volunteers? That's how vaccines are tested. Imagine giving it to millions of people with vaccines that aren't tested?

[Right Wing Assault]

The first to infect healthy volunteers? That's how vaccines are tested. Imagine giving it to millions of people with vaccines that aren't tested?

[EvilCapitalist]

And after that they can test “Asians.”

[rktman]

Is there funding for that in the U.S. covid relief bill? How about couple thousand quid too? 🤑💂🤴

[Scrambler Bob]

Britain will infect 2,500 healthy volunteers with coronavirus
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Hey.

The Covid infection is so high that I say they cannot find 2500 healthy, volunteers or not.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Just FYI, “In 1878, Arthur Downes and Thomas P. Blunt published a paper describing the sterilization of bacteria exposed to short-wavelength light. UV has been a known mutagen at the cellular level for over 100 years. The 1903 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Niels Finsen for his use of UV against lupus vulgaris, tuberculosis of the skin.”