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2020-04-26 Science & Technology

House lawmakers join growing calls from medics to approve controversial 'challenge trials' of coronavirus vaccines where people are deliberately infected with COVID-19 and could die

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Politicians not satisfied with being Hollyweird for ugly people, they want to be Ben Casey now too.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-26 00:36|| 2020-04-26 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm going to guess our resident magic numbers worshipper will love this idea.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-26 00:37|| 2020-04-26 00:37|| Front Page Top

#3 "The DEADLY Coronavirus". Don't forget the 'deadly'.

Posted by Bobby 2020-04-26 00:38|| 2020-04-26 00:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Prisons would make a great place to run such experiments. Rather than releasing felons, we should be packing them in like poorly ventilated sardines.

Posted by SteveS 2020-04-26 00:56|| 2020-04-26 00:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Donna Shalala's still alive? Was she exhumed for this article?

Posted by Raj 2020-04-26 06:40|| 2020-04-26 06:40|| Front Page Top

#6 #4 its a bit late in some cases. The list of 'volunteers' at the Super Max probably is minimal.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-26 06:53|| 2020-04-26 06:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Not saying I approve of something like this. But, if there's a call for volunteers - I'd expect all the people who's been telling me for months that Sars-CoV2 is just a flu, not dangerous to healthy people, to volunteer.
Not serious, just sure I'd find their excuses "why not" amusing.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-26 08:25|| 2020-04-26 08:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Who'd want to get the flu?

Posted by Clem 2020-04-26 08:27|| 2020-04-26 08:27|| Front Page Top

#9 I'd expect all the people who's been telling me for months that Sars-CoV2 is just a flu, not dangerous to healthy people, to volunteer.

Heh, media first.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-26 09:04|| 2020-04-26 09:04|| Front Page Top

#10 'The benefit outweighs any risks': Atlanta medical student, 31, who volunteered to be injected with Ebola vaccine is now a guinea pig for potentially groundbreaking COVID-19 immunization

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-26 09:34|| 2020-04-26 09:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Let. Them. Be. The. First. To. Volunteer.

Posted by magpie 2020-04-26 15:41|| 2020-04-26 15:41|| Front Page Top

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