Representative Bill Foster (D–IL) is leading an effort to encourage U.S. regulators to allow volunteers to be infected with the pandemic coronavirus to speed vaccine testing.
By Jon CohenScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.Political support is building for regulators in the United States to embrace the controversial strategy of intentionally infecting volunteers with the virus that causes COVID-19 in order to test experimental vaccines.
Such human challenge trials could greatly accelerate the development of an effective vaccine, 35 members of the House of Representatives argue in a letter sent yesterday to the heads of the U.S.