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UK to back ‘human challenge’ COVID trials where volunteers are deliberately infected – 7NEWS.com.au
In ‘human challenge’ trials, young, healthy volunteers are deliberately infected with the virus. But is it safe?
Britain says it will back human challenge trials, where young and healthy volunteers are deliberately infected with COVID-19, to accelerate the development of vaccines for the disease.
The government said it would invest $A61.4 million in the studies in partnership with Imperial College London, laboratory and trial services company hVIVO and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
If approved by regulators and an ethics committee, the studies would start in January with results expected by…
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