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Are COVID Human Infection Trials Ethical?

Summary by Cindy Olmstead

Humans are deliberately being infected with the coronavirus in the U.K. — the first country in the world to give ethical approval for trials that infect people with the virus, which researchers say allows them to learn more about COVID-19 in its early stages. The ethics of such challenge studies were discussed at length in a recent “Coronavirus in Context” video featuring Dr. John Whyte, chief medical officer at WebMD and Dr. Peter Openshaw, professor of experimental medicine...