Clinician administering virus to healthy volunteer (IMAGE)

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Clinician administering virus to healthy volunteer

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Clinician administering virus through the nose, as part of UK COVID-19 Human Challenge study.

Human challenge studies involve deliberate human infection ‘challenge’ of a small number of low-risk volunteers (healthy, young adults) under highly controlled settings. 

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