"Bob F" wrote in message
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This is quite a wild plan.

Nope, its the only way to work out how effective
a vaccine is if you can get the volunteers,

"Britain to infect healthy volunteers with coronavirus in vaccine
challenge trials"

"British scientists said Tuesday that they will launch the world's first
human challenge Â*trials for covid-19, in which healthy volunteers will be
deliberately infected with the coronavirus in hopes of further speeding
the drive to a vaccine.

The research, led by scientists at Imperial College London and funded by
the British government, is a gutsy gambit, given that people will be
submitting themselves to a deadly virus with no surefire treatment.

The United States is moving more cautiously, with leading government
researchers saying human challenge trials might be too risky or
unnecessary. But the British scientists say that the potential payoff is
massive €” that accelerating vaccine development by even three months could
save hundreds of thousands of lives globally.

CDC director says coronavirus vaccines wont be widely available till the
middle of next year

The British experiment is scheduled to begin in January. Volunteers will
have a purified, laboratory-grown strain of the live virus blown into
their noses, while quarantined in a 22-bed biosecure unit at the Royal
Free Hospital in London, where they will undergo daily, even hourly, tests
over two to three weeks.

The initial phase of the study, involving fewer than 100 healthy young
adults between ages 18 and 30, will seek to determine the minimal amount
of virus necessary to cause an active, measurable infection in the upper
respiratory system.

In the spring, the scientists hope to enlist more volunteers, who will be
inoculated with promising vaccines and then exposed to the virus to see
how well the vaccines protect them."



https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...line_manual_11