Thousands of people worldwide are willing to get coronavirus

In this current global coronavirus pandemic you would expect most reasonable people to take all precautions to avoid infection but some (approximately 16,000 worldwide) have signed up willingly to be infected with the virus according to a CNN Health report.

These individuals are part of an effort to find a reliable vaccine for coronavirus as part of a challenge trial.

In a challenge trial everyone in the experiment is intentionally infected with the virus.

While the risk is largely mitigated it can be dangerous for those involved ,even potentially fatal, but the proponents say this type of trial can see the fastest and most precise results in the effort to secure an effective vaccine.

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7 Comments

  1. May 14, 2020

    Very dumb idea. The dumbest …. I ever heard and some ppl will still go for it

    • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
      May 15, 2020

      It is not a dumb idea at all; if the vaccine is not experimented on humans, they will not know if it is effective on humans!

      Chances are those injected with the vaccine could actually die; by allowing themselves to be used as a Guinea Pig.

      There are also people who submit themselves almost forty-years ago to have the HIV (aids) virus injected into them to help find a cure!

      Such testing of all; and every medication takes place all the time.

      Where it pertains to surgery, young medical students starts on disinfecting animals, we then move to cadaver; then live humans.

      A Guinea Pig is a small animal that is often kept as a pet.

      Now; a person  used for testing something, a metaphor terms them a guinea pig; which is  a small stocky South American animal that is a rodent with short ears and a very short tail.

      A guinea pig is native to Guyana in South America!

      Thus derived the term; “name” Guinea Pig!

      • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
        May 18, 2020

         “young medical students starts on disinfecting animals, we then move to cadaver; then live humans.”

        ” disinfecting”: That should read “dissecting.”

        Medical Definition of dissect: is to cut or separate into pieces to expose the several parts of an animal or a cadaver for scientific examination.

        It is separating and follow along natural lines of cleavage through connective tissue. 

  2. Ibo France
    May 14, 2020

    Attention grabbing headline, how pathetic❗

  3. Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
    May 14, 2020

    “Thousands of people worldwide are willing to get coronavirus”

    One should always be very careful with what we hear, and what we read!

    The caption (the headline) is very misleading compounded with the smiling faces, as if they are willing to die!

    In order to confirm whether a vaccine is effective or not; it is first experimented on animals first!

    If it works on animals, then trial begins on humans.

    These people are not talking such chances playing with their life; they a paid a certain amount of money to become involved in that.

    They know it’s a risk, but for a few dollars human nature will make them do anything; in any event some will be given a placebo, while a few will be injected with a modify amount of the virus! 

    • UWP
      May 14, 2020

      You make no damn sense. Did you read over that crap you wrote?

      • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
        May 28, 2020

        You need to shut-up, you do not have any idea or clue of what I conveyed, if you had, you would not have made a confounded jack… of yourself.

        Have you ever studied medicine?

        I have!

        How many classes have you taken as a permed student; how many classes have taken in human biology, and biology in general?

        How many human anatomy classes have you taken, and how many days have you spent in a medical school?

        If you can submit an answer to the question I asked you; perhaps you are worthy of talking to me; If you cannot give an answer to me on DNO, on the same subject; I advise you to go and fly over cliff, or just shut up!

        I do not dignify the comments of low class nobody, who are beneath me in any way!

        Especially in an educational way.

        I read it before, but had to ponder over it to find a reason to respond. 

        Had to let you know you an id…!

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