In March 2020, a radical proposal is being discussed for conducting “human challenge” studies, where a small number of healthy volunteers are infected with the virus to rapidly test the vaccine. This bold proposal could help accelerate vaccine research.
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The Radical Proposal for Vaccine Testing
Amid the spread of the virus and millions, perhaps billions, of people avoiding social interaction to protect themselves and their communities from coronavirus, a radical research proposal is being discussed that could help stop the pandemic. This proposal involves infecting a small number of healthy volunteers with the virus to rapidly test the vaccine.
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- Eyal, N., Lipsitch, M. & Smith, P. G. J. Infect. Dis. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaa152 (2020).
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