'I've accepted the risk': volunteering to be exposed to Covid in new trials
by Molly Blackall from on (#5E9ZW)
Healthy adult volunteers aged 18 to 30 will be exposed to virus in controlled environment
Human challenge trials for coronavirus are to begin in the UK, a world first in the global fight against Covid-19.
Healthy adult volunteers aged between 18 and 30 will be exposed to coronavirus in a controlled environment, to learn more about how their body reacts to the virus, how it is transmitted and how much of the virus is needed to cause infection.
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