Health
The volunteers lining up for Covid-19 challenge trials – The Guardian
Non-profit organisation 1Day Sooner has attracted over 38,500 willing participants
Human challenge trials in which young, healthy volunteers are intentionally infected with a virus to allow vaccines and treatments to be tested quickly have been used in the fight against diseases ranging from typhoid and cholera to malaria.
With the announcement on Tuesday of such trials to help develop a vaccine against Covid-19 there is a key difference there are as yet very few proven therapies for the virus and we know little about its long-term effects.
But volunteers are lining up in th…
-
General22 hours agoHow they started and how they finished • Inside Story
-
Noosa News22 hours agoAustralian farmers express ‘profound disappointment’ as tariffs on Aussie beef backfires on Americans
-
Business21 hours agoWhich ASX sectors led the pack in March, according to Macquarie?
-
Noosa News24 hours agoHonour awarded at cocktail party – Proctor