Health
Volunteers to be infected with coronavirus in world first human trials – The Independent
Gap year student one of 90 ‘guinea pigs’ to undergo trials at London’s Royal Free Hospital
The first question to ask Alastair Fraser-Urquhart perhaps is what makes a healthy 18-year-old volunteer to be deliberately infected with a virus that has killed millions, left countless more with life-altering conditions and for which, ultimately, there is no known cure.
He does not miss a beat with his reply.
Ive been asked this before and I dont have a good answer, he says. I think the benefits will be so extreme that, even though the risks are high, theyre outweighed by those benefits. We need…
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