UK approves first-of-its-kind study to infect young people with Covid
New research aims to help doctors and scientists to further understand how immune system reacts to Sars-CoV-2
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With 90 people in that age group, it's quite possible that noone will die, statistically speaking. But do you want to play that game?
Not much. They intentionally don't pay a lot so at risk groups don't feel compelled to volunteer under economic duress. It's medical ethics thing.
I'm currently on a trial in the US, not in teen obviously, but for one of the vaccines still awaiting authorization.
We need more younger ages to do trials, but hard to get volunteers as they need parental consent.
A girl I used to work with, here in the UK, got something like £2000 for doing a Flu study.
It's been a while but I think it was only 2-3 weeks or so because she used her annual leave from work to do it.
Might be different with Flu though because of the greater understanding + seasonal nature.
Oh, that's pretty involved then. Makes sense the pay was pretty high.
I didn't need to take off for the current vax trial I'm doing.
Ahh right yeah, in this case she got injected with Flu and had to stay where the study was taking place so they could study its effects. Something like that anyway,, it's even called "FluCamp" lol
My main concern would be organ damage and the potential long term implications of that. The people over 20 are at the greatest risk in the study.
But the study is taking place in the context of scientists being in a race between a mutating virus and the vaccines designed to stop it. Millions of lives are on the line. Difficult decisions will have to be made, and they will have to live with the outcomes.
They could survive, and not spread the virus.
Oh, you mean from a normal person's perspective.
How can exposing someone to corona virus be done in a "safe and controlled" way? Shit is wildly unpredictable from person to person.
They say 'safe and controlled environment', which is a reference to the 24/7 monitoring during the short term exposure, rather than the risk of long-term effect.
To start with they're young, so the risk of serious illness is greatly reduced.
Also sounds like they're selecting those unlikely to be at risk from underlying conditions.
And they're going to be monitored extremely closely.
Basically, if anything were to go seriously wrong, then they'd absolutely be inthe best place for early treatment.
Wouldn't do it myself, but this is clearly important so respect for those who volunteer.
£4500
Volunteers to be paid £4k in world’s first Covid ‘human challenge’
The UK will be the first country in the world to run a Covid-19 human challenge study
www.standard.co.uk
Was wondering what was going on with this, thanks for the update.
The article says they'll be given remdesivir as soon as they start viral shedding from their nose and are under constant monitoring of course so this is probably relatively safe (as these things go).
Therefore it seems the main focus here is to study the early stages of infection as we don't know a whole lot about how that works yet and also try to determine what quantity of virus is needed to become infected. These are important questions. Pretty courageous of the volunteers though as we don't know much yet about the longer-term effects of even mild infections.
The article says they'll be given remdesivir as soon as they start viral shedding from their nose and are under constant monitoring of course so this is probably relatively safe (as these things go).
Therefore it seems the main focus here is to study the early stages of infection as we don't know a whole lot about how that works yet and also try to determine what quantity of virus is needed to become infected. These are important questions. Pretty courageous of the volunteers though as we don't know much yet about the longer-term effects of even mild infections.
Well, thank you to all of these brave volunteers. They are risking their lives to save lives.
I hope they get very well compensated.
Edit: £88/day, I don't think that's substantial enough given the risks involved.
You don't know how far they are into the infection. There's arguably not much info on how Covid proceeds in its earliest possible stages. When someone knows they have it, due to a test, they probably already had it for a few days.