The lead organiser of 1Day Sooner in the UK is 18-year-old Alastair Fraser-Urquhart who is devoting his time to the campaign before going to University College London to study cancer biology next year.
One crucial aspect of challenge trials is to select and purify an appropriate strain of the virus that is genetically representative of Sars-CoV-2 currently circulating in the population, and choose doses that will infect volunteers without overloading their immune system. Volunteers who take part in hVivo’s influenza challenge studies receive up to £3,750 compensation. The payment for Covid-19 trials is likely to be somewhat higher because the isolation will last longer – potentially as long as a month.
Any Covid-19 challenge trial will need to be approved by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and an independent research ethics committee.
God help them. I'd rather have the natural virus.
hVivo.... Also know as the Dept of Ed
Given how little we know about who is vulnerable to longcovid , deliberately infecting (presumably young, healthy) people with COVID seems a risky strategy.
Are all volunteers risking their life for the Nobel cause been rewarded ?I hope they are all rewarded at the highest level! Both to Vaccine inventors and volunteers! UN WHO NobelPrize kiranshaw LoriShemek EU_Commission CoronaWarrior enricomolinari We express our gratitude