The UK is set to launch its first study to deliberately infect volunteers with the novel coronavirus.
According to a statement issued by the researchers, this challenging research will begin in early 2021 and they will be infected with the corona virus and an experimental vaccine will be used.
Volunteers are usually given an experimental vaccine in a vaccine trial and then monitored for several months to see if they are naturally infected with the virus.
But scientists believe that adding a new corona virus to a trial could save at least several months, if not years.
But such trials can be dangerous because if the situation worsens, there is still no cure for Code 19.
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But such trials are not new, they have been used as an important tool to learn more about diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.
This new challenging research will be led by scientists at Imperial College London for which the British government will provide فراہم 43.4 million.
The research will enlist the services of healthy volunteers between the ages of 18 and 30 who are still protected from code 19 and already have risk factors for any disease or code 19, such as heart disease Don’t be diabetic or obese.
If approved by authorities, the investigation will begin in January 2021 at the Royal Free Hospital, where volunteers will be quarantined and infected with a new laboratory-developed corona virus.
In the first phase of the research, researchers will inject a minimum amount of the virus into a volunteer’s body to infect it with code 19.
This amount will be gradually increased, after which the next step will be to use different experimental vaccines to compare how effective they are in preventing code 19.
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The study plans to investigate possible treatments and immune responses, but has not yet said which vaccines will be tested on these volunteers.
According to Peter OpenShaw, director of the Imperial College London’s Human Challenge Consortium in the study, “deliberately influencing volunteers cannot be taken lightly, but such research provides a lot of information about a disease.”
The statement said the study would be reviewed by an ethics committee and approved by a regulatory agency before hiring volunteers.