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Infecting volunteers with coronavirus may be one way to test potential vaccines. But there are risks – ABC News
There are many scientific and ethical challenges ahead. But these types of trials have helped in the development of vaccines against a few diseases. Could they …
Researchers are considering using “human challenge studies” to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine research and development.
This would involve giving an experimental vaccine to healthy volunteers, then deliberately exposing them to the virus to see whether they’re protected from infection.
Challenge studies can also allow scientists to monitor the progress of infectious diseases from the moment they begin, and to study infection and immunity more closely than other types of research.
These studies …
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