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Coronavirus vaccine: Oxford team aim to start lab-controlled human trials – The Guardian
Jenner Institute at Oxford looks to recruit healthy volunteers for controversial ‘challenge trial’
The team behind the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine hope to begin tests on volunteers who will be intentionally exposed to the virus in a challenge trial, a move seen as controversialsince there is no proven cure for the illness.
Although challenge trials, in which healthy volunteers are given a pathogen, are routine in vaccine development, taking the approach for Covid-19, where there is no failsafe treatment if a volunteer becomes severely ill, has been questioned.
In human challenge trials voluntee…
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