UK backs COVID-19 vaccine trials that infect volunteers

[snoop1130]

UK backs COVID-19 vaccine trials that infect volunteers

 

FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a "Vaccine COVID-19" sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken April 10, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Tuesday it would back "human challenge" trials, where young and healthy volunteers are deliberately infected with COVID-19, to accelerate the development of vaccines for the disease.

 

The government said it would invest 33.6 million pounds ($43.5 million) in the studies in partnership with Imperial College London, laboratory and trial services company hVIVO and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

 

If approved by regulators and an ethics committee, the studies would start in January with results expected by May 2021, the government said.

 

Britain's hVIVO, a unit of pharmaceutical services company Open Orphan, said on Friday it was carrying out preliminary work for the trials.

 

Using controlled doses of virus, the aim of the research team  will initially be to discover the smallest amount of virus it takes to cause COVID-19 infection in small groups of healthy young people, aged between 18 and 30, who are  at the lowest risk of harm, the government said.

 

Up to 90 volunteers could be involved at the early stage, it said.

 

Imperial College's Chris Chiu, lead researcher on the human challenge study, said the trials could increase understanding of COVID-19 in unique ways and accelerate development of the many potential new treatments and vaccines.

 

"Our number one priority is the safety of the volunteers," he said. "My team has been safely running human challenge studies with other respiratory viruses for over 10 years. No study is completely risk free, but the Human Challenge Programme partners will be working hard to ensure we make the risks as low as we possibly can."

 

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[ukrules]

They should pay them well, I would expect this to take up at least a week of their time and plenty of testing will need to be done on them so it will no doubt be in a controlled environment - locked away in a bio lab.

[AlexRich]

I bet they are getting a reasonably good fee for that. Given they are young the risk should be fairly low.

[Brunolem]

Even though he doesn't exactly fit the required profile, they might want to make an exception and give a shot to the uber pompous Michel Barnier. 

 

Or better, make that a double shot! 

[Don Chance]

You'd be crazy to get infected on purpose. Long term damage could ruin your life.

 

https://ca.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-diabetes-insight-idCAKBN2741ET

[Xaos]

This is stupid propaganda. Why they would have to infects anyone if according to them they got pandemic going. Not enough infected? 

[from the home of CC]

20 hours ago, Don Chance said:

You'd be crazy to get infected on purpose. Long term damage could ruin your life.

 

https://ca.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-diabetes-insight-idCAKBN2741ET

other countries refuse to do this on ethical grounds, too many unknowns and no proven cure..

[Dave0206]

5 minutes ago, from the home of CC said:

other countries refuse to do this on ethical grounds, too many unknowns and no proven cure..

For the greater good? many people join the military to protect others when some of us think why deliberately put yourself in harm's way.

so for the volunteers I say ty and good luck 

[3NUMBAS]

80%  are asymptomatic so it maybe easy money or a death wish ..we will see how it pans out

its a potential 3 trillion market for first adopters of a working vacinne..

Edited October 21, 2020 by 3NUMBAS

[ukrules]

They already have 1000's of potential volunteers to choose from.

 

[sotsira]

6 hours ago, Xaos said:

This is stupid propaganda. Why they would have to infects anyone if according to them they got pandemic going. Not enough infected? 

 

17 minutes ago, ukrules said:

They already have 1000's of potential volunteers to choose from.

 

I think your both confusing the purpose of the Vaccine, which is to prevent a Non Infected person from catching it in the first place.

That's why you would need to first give the vaccine to a healthy person, then infect them with the virus after to see if they are immune to it. 

[sharksy]

I believe the volunteers will recieve £4000

[Srikcir]

90 volunteers

A meaningless test size to test a new vaccine.

[John Drake]

On 10/20/2020 at 5:37 PM, snoop1130 said:

If approved by regulators and an ethics committee, the studies would start in January with results expected by May 2021, the government said.

 

So the following, then, is a disinformation campaign, and they are nowhere near distributing a vaccine right after Christmas??? https://www.thenational.scot/news/18803290.covid-vaccine-jonathan-van-tam-hopeful-mass-roll-out-new-year/

[from the home of CC]

19 hours ago, Dave0206 said:

For the greater good? many people join the military to protect others when some of us think why deliberately put yourself in harm's way.

so for the volunteers I say ty and good luck 

no comparison at all for when you join the military you are given a weapon to defend yourself and kill your enemy - no such weapon is in the arsenal for these folks and it should of been delayed till a proven therapeutic/anti viral was available. To me, this reeks of panic and looking at the present situation over there I can almost understand why..  

[Dave0206]

On 10/22/2020 at 6:03 AM, from the home of CC said:

no comparison at all for when you join the military you are given a weapon to defend yourself and kill your enemy - no such weapon is in the arsenal for these folks and it should of been delayed till a proven therapeutic/anti viral was available. To me, this reeks of panic and looking at the present situation over there I can almost understand why..  

this is a invisible enemy where waiting is a bit stupid how do you get “a proven therapeutic/ anti viral remedy without testing on humans?

its a bit over dramatic to say you join the military you get a gun to kill the enemy

when last did the enemy wear a uniform so it was so easy to identify  who you was fighting against .

220,000  Us soldiers were killed and injured  over many years In Vietnam now in 7 months you have this amount dead with god knows how many life changing conditions.

i suppose if we wait it will miraculously disappear must be true I heard it somewhere

[from the home of CC]

1 hour ago, Dave0206 said:

this is a invisible enemy where waiting is a bit stupid how do you get “a proven therapeutic/ anti viral remedy without testing on humans?

its a bit over dramatic to say you join the military you get a gun to kill the enemy

when last did the enemy wear a uniform so it was so easy to identify  who you was fighting against .

220,000  Us soldiers were killed and injured  over many years In Vietnam now in 7 months you have this amount dead with god knows how many life changing conditions.

i suppose if we wait it will miraculously disappear must be true I heard it somewhere

they're testing a vaccine by first making people sick, it's not a therapeutic trial. Apples and oranges. This is about big business pressuring governments , not wanting to wait to reopen while safety trials are progressing. Normal vaccinations trials involve the natural infection patterns, not shoving it up peoples noses. Good for them, these human Guinea pigs want to help it's admirable though foolish. To be allowed to do this by a nation, I disagree. It's money over lives with some nations obviously putting the priority on the money - and the result of that can be seen by the present infection /hospitalization rates..