UK to infect healthy volunteers in vaccine research trial U.K. researchers are preparing to infect healthy young volunteers with the new coronavirus to study the disease in hopes of speeding up development of a vaccineLONDON -- Danica Marcos wants to be infected with COVID-19. Marcos and other young volunteers say they want to take part to help bring an end to the pandemic after seeing the havoc it has wreaked. This type of research, known as a human challenge study, is used infrequently because some question the ethics of infecting otherwise healthy individuals. Challenge studies are typically used to test vaccines against mild infections to avoid exposing volunteers to a serious illness if the vaccine doesn’t work. Those steps include examining the ethics of a challenge study, and funding research to create lab-grown virus strains that potentially could be used.

Source: ABC News October 20, 2020 09:48 UTC