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    COVID-19: SHOULD WE INFECT PEOPLE WITH IT?

    Sep 03, 2020 3 minutes
    by JAMES LLOYD

    The race for a COVID-19 vaccine is hotting up. There are currently over 150 candidate vaccines in development around the world, with around 30 being tested on humans.

    But for some scientists, the progress isn’t fast enough. There are growing calls for so-called ‘human challenge studies’, which would deliberately infect volunteers with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, with the aim of speeding up vaccine development by, according to one paper, as much as several months, potentially saving thousands of lives.

    This would be

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