Health
Qld woman’s push to be infected with COVID pays off – Daily Mercury
The UK government has given the green light to controversial tests that could see Brisbane researcher Sophie Rose deliberately infected with coronavirus.
A coronavirus vaccine could be available six months earlier after a groundbreaking study proposed by a Brisbane public health student was approved.
Sophie Rose, a Brisbane Girls Grammar graduate, was behind a campaign to have volunteers deliberately infected with coronavirus to fast-track the testing of vaccines.
Now the British government has given it the green light.
Ms Rose was a key figure in the push for the trials as founder of campaign group 1DaySooner, which found 37,000 volunteers fo…
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