Episode 1288 • • 25:38 - 29:03
1288: Croaker
UK Human Challenge Trials, Deliberate COVID-19 Infection
Richard Engel reports on controversial "challenge trials" at a London hospital where 90 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 30 will be deliberately infected with COVID-19. The goal is to accelerate vaccine testing by guaranteeing infection in a controlled environment, despite ethical objections regarding the lack of a guaranteed cure.