#ORPH Open Orphan – Why scientists are deliberately infecting volunteers with Covid-19 September 16, 2021 – Posted in: Open Orphan (ORPH)

If you are going to catch covid-19, jokes Jacob Hopkins, a university student, the safest place to do it is in a hospital. So in March Mr Hopkins lay down on a bed in the Royal Free Hospital in London while doctors placed droplets of liquid carrying the sars–cov-2 virus into his nose. Mr Hopkins was one of 36 participants in the first “human challenge trial” (hct) for covid-19. Human trials are a valuable part of medical…

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