Volunteers Offered $4,500 To Be Infected With Coronavirus In Bid To Find Vaccine
March 10, 2020 at 11:18 am
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LONDON (CBS Local) — In the race to develop a vaccine for the rapidly-spreading coronavirus, scientists in Great Britain are looking for 24 brave volunteers.
Hvivo, which owns the Queen Mary BioEnterprises Innovation Centre in east London, is looking for volunteers willing to be injected with the 0C43 and 229E strains of the coronavirus as part of research into the development of a vaccine.
These strains are far less serious than the COVID-19 strain currently spreading across the world, giving them similar respiratory symptoms.
Volunteers selected for the program will be compensated to the tune of £3,500, or about $4,500, according to the Daily Star and the Daily Mail.
Volunteers will be kept in isolation and on a restricted diet for two weeks with no exercise or physical contact with any other person.
Hvivo’s plans still need to be approved by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency before any testing can begin.
If you’re interested in participating, visit Hvivo’s website at FluCamp.com.
Researchers in Seattle have also begun recruiting healthy volunteers to participate in a clinical trial for a vaccine developed by the biotechnology company Moderna Therapeutics, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The vaccine trial is expected to launch by the end of April and will take 14 months but volunteers don’t need to be quarantined. They will receive up to $1,100 in total.
Health experts have warned that a vaccine is unlikely to be approved in time to halt the current coronavirus outbreak.
Get PAID to have coronavirus: Scientists in London will pay volunteers £3,500 to be infected in experiments to develop a vaccine for the deadly virus
Scientists based in Whitechapel will recruit 24 members of the public
The study will test if a jab developed by Hvivo will successfully fight COVID-19
Participants will be injected with two weaker strains of the coronavirus
Some 20 vaccines are in development and the UK government will fund £46m
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Volunteers could be paid £3,500 to be infected with the coronavirus as scientists race to find a vaccine.
The Queen Mary BioEnterprises Innovation Centre, London, is recruiting 24 people for the study.
They will be injected with two weaker strains of the deadly virus – which has killed more than 3,800 people worldwide – giving them similar respiratory symptoms.
A jab developed by the company Hvivo will then be tested. Patients will remain in quarantine for two weeks to see if it is successful.
Some 35 other vaccines are in development, and the UK government has promised an extra £46million in the fight against coronavirus.
However, experts have said a vaccine is unlikely to be approved in time to halt the current epidemic, which has so far seen more than 110,000 people across the globe fall ill with COVID-19.
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Volunteers Offered $4,500 To Be Infected With Coronavirus In Bid To Find Vaccine
In the race to develop a vaccine for the rapidly-spreading coronavirus, scientists in Great Britain are looking for 24 brave volunteers.
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In the race to develop a vaccine for the rapidly-spreading coronavirus, scientists in Great Britain are looking for 24 brave volunteers.
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