This is a double edged sword. Initially UK in order to achieve herd immunity and clinical tests started infecting young people with corona virus, in the hope that after mild illness they will develop a resistance to it. However the due to high R0 value of COVID-19 virus(about 2 to 2.5) , there were unable to contain the spread and their hospitals overflowed with cases. Due to this they had to the changed their strategy, of gradual restriction, to mass quarantine damaging their economy. However the point of kidney donors is worth thinking.
On Friday, May 8, 2020 at 10:29:33 PM UTC+5:30, John Clark wrote: > > If you want to do something drastic to end this virus nightmare there is > something we could do that would be far more effective than waiting for > herd immunity as well as being less ethically questionable, although I'm > sure some would still clutch their pearls in horror, I'm referring to Human > Challenge Trials. The idea is young healthy volunteers would be injected > with a experimental vaccine (or a placebo) and then deliberately infected > with the COVID-19 virus. This would dramatically speed up vaccine > development and save many thousands, perhaps millions, of lives; not to > mention stop the economy from collapsing into rubble. The death rate for > young healthy people who get COVID-19 is only about 1.4 deaths per 10,000 > and the death rate for those who volunteer as kidney donors is 3 times > that, we accept one as being ethical why not the other? > As one ethicist put it: > > > *"This is the trolley problem where the fat man wants to jump knowing his > chance of death is below 1% and our decision is whether to stop him."* > Should volunteers to be infected with coronavirus to test vaccines? > <https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/united-states-should-allow-volunteers-be-infected-coronavirus-test-vaccines-lawmakers#> > > Human Challenge Trials—A Coronavirus Taboo > <https://quillette.com/2020/05/01/human-challenge-trials-a-coronavirus-taboo/> > > John K Clark > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/fe268ee0-f9a5-43ea-aba6-49c68630e640%40googlegroups.com.
