UK aims to infect healthy volunteers with COVID-19 for medical research
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In a move seen by some as pushing medical ethics to the limit, the United Kingdom on Wednesday announced it will fund a project that aims to intentionally infect young and healthy individuals with COVID-19 in the name of research.
About 90 volunteers, between the ages of 18 and 30, are expected to take part in the "human challenge." The study was set to take place in the high-level isolation unit of the Royal Free Hospital in London, according to the Lancet. The magazine Nature reported back in October—when the idea of the trials just surfaced—that the idea of infecting people "even those at low risk of severe disease—with SARS-CoV-2, a deadly pathogen that has few proven treatments, is unchartered medical and bioethical territory."
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