Would you volunteer for Covid-19 vaccination trials?

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53426367

Encouraging early results from clinical trials have raised hopes for an effective coronavirus vaccine.

The only way we will know if any of them works is if enough volunteers are subsequently exposed to coronavirus in their daily life and do not get infected.

That could take well into next year, given that many studies are being conducted in countries where infection rates are falling.

The organisation 1 Day Sooner argues this should not be left to chance.

It is made up of more than 30,000 would-be volunteers in 140 countries who say they are prepared to take part in challenge studies.

The campaign now has the support of more than 100 prominent figures, including 15 Nobel laureates, who have signed an open letter advocating this approach. They say it would involve healthy, young volunteers being deliberately given coronavirus after receiving the vaccine.

They argue that the risks to their health would be low, but the potential benefits to society enormous.

Any volunteers for the testing ?

Judging by comments on this sub-forum, there would appear to be a few who are willing to do this.

 

[anthony263]

I'd volunteer but I wouldn't want to risk the vacine not working and catch that virus as I don't want to put .ynwife and our 8 month old daughter at risk.

 

[Richard Scott]

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Any volunteers for the testing ?

Judging by comments on this sub-forum, there would appear to be a few who are willing to do this.

I would but doubt they'd have me due to age.

 

[Jonny]

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Any volunteers for the testing ?

Judging by comments on this sub-forum, there would appear to be a few who are willing to do this.

If they want to, then let them go ahead. However, it may take longer for all the risks to show up. The trouble is that most of the people who would need to be vaccinated will not gain an individual benefit, and I'll very likely decline on that basis. But, hey, if anyone else wants it then they can have it.