Covid trial infecting healthy volunteers needs full transparency, say campaigners
by Natalie Grover Science correspondent from on (#5FQTN)
Demand for full study protocol of human trials be made public before first participants recruited
Campaigners are demanding that the full protocol of the world's first human challenge trial in which healthy young volunteers are deliberately infected with the virus that causes Covid-19 be published before the first participants are recruited.
The trial is designed to sharpen our understanding of the virus and expedite the development of new-generation vaccines and therapeutics. While some scientists have reservations about exposing volunteers to a virus for which there is no cure, proponents argue that the risks of Covid-19 to the young and healthy are minimal and the benefits to society high.
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