New York Times – Would You Let a Scientist Infect You With COVID? October 14, 2021 – Posted in: Blog, Open Orphan (ORPH)

By Kate Murphy, New York Times In an age of masking, compulsive hand sanitizing and plexiglass dividers, it seems inconceivable that for more than 40 years people enthusiastically signed up — and were often put on a waiting list — to have respiratory viruses, including coronaviruses, dripped into their noses. They were volunteers at the Common Cold Unit, set up in 1946 by the British government’s Medical Research Council… …aim of the study was to…