Do you have a link for that? Of course, this time they skipped those messy animal trials (so at least PETA must be happy).
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 7:51 PM Barra Bernstein <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmmm.. The article fails to mention that when they did a SARS vaccine > challenge study on animals in the past, that all of the animals became > extremely sick and died. > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 4:39 PM Mark Crispin Miller < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> *No problem here.* >> >> >> THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS >> <https://www.npr.org/series/812054919/the-coronavirus-crisis> >> U.K. Preparing COVID-19 Vaccine Trials That Deliberately Expose Study >> Subjects >> >> - >> >> October 20, 20208:40 AM ET >> >> >> https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/10/20/925723045/u-k-preparing-covid-19-vaccine-trials-that-deliberately-infect-study-subjects >> >> SCOTT NEUMAN <https://www.npr.org/people/131724812/scott-neuman> >> Twitter <https://www.twitter.com/ScottNeumanNPR> >> >> The study is still awaiting final regulatory approval. If given the green >> light, a study in which human volunteers will be infected with the >> coronavirus will begin in January at a biosecure unit at London's Royal >> Free Hospital. >> Kirsty O'Connor/PA Images via Getty Images >> >> Updated at 9:00 a.m. ET >> >> Researchers in Britain are preparing to start a controversial COVID-19 >> "human challenge" study in which dozens of healthy volunteers will be >> exposed to live coronavirus in an effort to speed up vaccine development. >> >> The Human Challenge Programme will be conducted by Imperial College >> London, which said Tuesday in a statement >> <https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/206893/uk-researchers-explore-human-challenge-studies/> >> that >> it would be working in cooperation with the Department for Business, Energy >> and Industrial Strategy, the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust >> <https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk/>, and hVIVO >> <https://hvivo.com/the-human-challenge-programme/>, a clinical company >> that has worked on viral human challenge models. >> >> The U.K. government is preparing to invest $43.4 million (33.6 million >> pounds) in the study, which is the first of its kind involving the >> coronavirus. >> >> The plan is to recruit healthy people between the ages of 18 and 30 with >> no prior history of COVID-19 symptoms and no known risk factors for the >> disease. Researchers would inoculate them with a candidate vaccine, then >> test its effectiveness by deliberately exposing them to live coronavirus. >> >> The study is still awaiting final regulatory approval. If it is given the >> green light, it will begin in January at a biosecure unit at London's Royal >> Free Hospital. Volunteers will be quarantined in the facility and receive a >> laboratory-grown SARS-CoV-2 strain as part of the trial. They will be >> monitored around the clock for a few weeks. >> >> --- >> >> Support News from Underground: https://bit.ly/NFUSupport >> >> Visit News from Underground: https://markcrispinmiller.com >> >> You received this email because you are subscribed to News from >> Underground. To unsubscribe from this email list, please go to: >> http://archives.simplelists.com >> >> For archives, please go to: https://archives.simplelists.com/nfu >> > --- Support News from Underground: https://bit.ly/NFUSupport Visit News from Underground: https://markcrispinmiller.com You received this email because you are subscribed to News from Underground. To unsubscribe from this email list, please go to: http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=pIdjNUgiG2h8yxbhC54SSy4SEskAoEMs For archives, please go to: https://archives.simplelists.com/nfu
