Covid-19: World's first human challenge trials to start in UK
Healthy, young volunteers will be infected with coronavirus to test vaccines and treatments in the world's first Covid-1...
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Healthy, young volunteers will be infected with coronavirus to test vaccines and treatments in the world's first Covid-19 "human challenge" study, which will take place in the UK.The study, which has received ethics approval, will start in the next few weeks and recruit 90 people aged 18-30.They will be exposed to the virus in a safe and controlled environment while medics monitor their health.The UK has given doses of a Covid vaccine to more than 15 million people.Human challenge studies have played a vital role in pushing the development of treatments for a number of diseases, including malaria, typhoid, cholera and flu.Why do researchers want to squirt Covid up noses?How will we know if the vaccine is working?When will lockdown rules be reviewed?Oxford-AstraZeneca jab to be tested on childrenThe trials will help scientists work out the smallest amount of coronavirus needed to cause infection, and how the body's immune system reacts to it.
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Covid-19: World's first human challenge trials to start in UK
Healthy, young volunteers will be infected with coronavirus to test vaccines and treatments in the world's first Covid-19 "human challenge" study, which will take place in the UK.The study, which has received ethics approval, will start in the next few weeks and recruit 90 people aged 18-30.They will be exposed to the virus in a safe and controlled environment while medics monitor their health.The UK has given doses of a Covid vaccine to more than 15 million people.Human challenge studies have played a vital role in pushing the development of treatments for a number of diseases, including malaria, typhoid, cholera and flu.Why do researchers want to squirt Covid up noses?How will we know if the vaccine is working?When will lockdown rules be reviewed?Oxford-AstraZeneca jab to be tested on childrenThe trials will help scientists work out the smallest amount of coronavirus needed to cause infection, and how the body's immune system reacts to it.
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