Posted on 03/11/2020 4:53:56 PM PDT by dynachrome
In a $2 billion race to find a vaccine various companies are infecting humans with Coronavirus for clinical trials. A medical research firm based in the U.K. is offering more than $4,500 to individuals willing to serve as guinea pigs and be injected with two strains of Coronavirus similar to COVID-19 in a bid to find a vaccine for the new deadly virus. In the U.S., another firm is seeking participants for a COVID-19 vaccine study, but the pay is not as high, nor as quick, nor as risky.
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If you’re brave enough it’s a good idea. It’s the people that don’t get sick are the ones to gleen a vaccine from.
Better to get it now than to wait for the crowd.
It will be long over with by that time. Where is the panic that should be accorded the “common” flu strains? Which factors more of people?
Unless one of the side effects of the vaccine is your butt falls off.
Righteous bucks.
Risk and reward. Not sure the bucks would be worth whatever risk level there is.
Gleen? So they hook you up to pumps and bleed you dry?
I’m guessing that you would get pretty good medical care, anyway.
Who pays funeral expenses? Should they be needed. ..
Maybe people sitting on death row wanting some good karma could volunteer, and donate the cash to their families.
If race is not a factor in susceptibility, then why has Africa, India and Pakistan been relatively spared?
A great light shall rise from the earth an cure all Wuhan virus...hope it is not a nuke.
Well there are always guinea pigs for this kind of thing in order to get a cure, a vaccine for anything there has to be people willing to take it first
“If race is not a factor in susceptibility, then why has Africa, India and Pakistan been relatively spared?”
India completely closed it’s borders today.
Some of the coronavirus deniers on here who insist it’s not as bad as the flu, should take them up on it.
Put your money where your mouth is.
I’ve had the flu. It sucks. I prepare for whatever.
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