UK TO BEGIN WORLD-FIRST HUMAN TRIALS TO STUDY COVID-19

  • 17/02/2021

The UK is to begin the world''s first COVID-19 human trials to study the impact of the deadly virus on a healthy body's immune system, after receiving the approval of the country's clinical trials ethics body .The initial study is intended to help scientists understand how the immune system reacts to the virus that causes COVID-19, and identify factors that influence how it is transmitted  including how a person who is infected "sheds" infectious virus particles into the environment.


The study will involve up to 90 "carefully selected" healthy adult volunteers being exposed to the virus in a safe and controlled environment.The new study will aim to establish the least amount of virus needed to cause COVID-19 infection. As there is much less information available about new virus variants, the doctors will use the original virus that has been circulating in the UK since March 2020.

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