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In a first, UK set to infect volunteers with covid to speed up vaccine trial

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COVID-19 vaccines, where volunteers are deliberately infected with the disease, could become a reality after a British biotech firm signed a contract with the government to create and provide strains of the virus.Preliminary work for the trials, which aim to speed up the process of determining the efficacy of a vaccine candidate, is being carried out by hVIVO, a unit of pharmaceutical services company Open Orphan, hVIVO said on Friday.This involves creating a human challenge study model that could be used should such trials gain ethical and safety approval from regulators."The model development involves the manufacture of the challenge virus and the first-in-human characterisation study for this virus," the company said.Supporters of human.

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