Are SARS-CoV-2 Human Challenge Trials Ethical? – “A clinical trial is underway in the UK in which young, healthy participants are exposed deliberately to SARS-CoV-2 to assess the viral inoculum needed to produce an infection and to test vaccine efficacy”.

Are SARS-CoV-2 Human Challenge Trials Ethical? – JAMA Internal Medicine

Related: World’s first coronavirus “Human Challenge” study receives ethics approval in the UK (several texts on the subject)

Commentary on Twitter

I am not convinced of #SARSCoV2 #ChallengeTrials. You should not pay volunteers. If things go wrong, there is no effective treatment. What will be learnt from mild disease, when you are interested in severe disease? #COVID19 #Covid #Corona #coronavirushttps://t.co/JjXDJDfOl2

— Martin Michaelis (@MartMichaelis) June 8, 2021