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Anastasia Tsirtsakis
22 Oct 2020
A proposed UK vaccine trial that will infect healthy volunteers has raised concern among Australian experts who fear long-term health ramifications.
Would you volunteer to be infected with a potentially fatal virus? A virus that has killed more than one million people and led to government-enforced lockdowns across the globe?
Scientists at the Imperial College London are hoping people will do exactly that.
The UK Government’s COVID-19 Vaccine Taskforce has agreed to pay Open Orphan, a Dublin-based commercial clinical-research organisation, up to ?10 million to conduct the UK COVID Challenge study.
... ‘Deliberately infecting volunteers with a known human pathogen is never undertaken lightly. However, such studies are enormously informative about a disease,’ he said.
Associate Professor Ian Mackay, a clinical virologist at the Australian Infections Diseases Research Centre at the University of Queensland, says such trials in controlled environments can have many benefits.
That is not to say, however, that the virologist does not have concerns.
https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/cl...campaign=5e1211cf-b8b2-4ae2-98a7-2256d8e08a42
22 Oct 2020
A proposed UK vaccine trial that will infect healthy volunteers has raised concern among Australian experts who fear long-term health ramifications.
Would you volunteer to be infected with a potentially fatal virus? A virus that has killed more than one million people and led to government-enforced lockdowns across the globe?
Scientists at the Imperial College London are hoping people will do exactly that.
The UK Government’s COVID-19 Vaccine Taskforce has agreed to pay Open Orphan, a Dublin-based commercial clinical-research organisation, up to ?10 million to conduct the UK COVID Challenge study.
... ‘Deliberately infecting volunteers with a known human pathogen is never undertaken lightly. However, such studies are enormously informative about a disease,’ he said.
Associate Professor Ian Mackay, a clinical virologist at the Australian Infections Diseases Research Centre at the University of Queensland, says such trials in controlled environments can have many benefits.
That is not to say, however, that the virologist does not have concerns.
https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/cl...campaign=5e1211cf-b8b2-4ae2-98a7-2256d8e08a42