Feasibility, Potential Value and Limitations of Establishing a Closely Monitored Challenge Model of Experimental COVID-19 Infection and Illness in Healthy Young Adult Volunteers: Draft Report | NLM

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Feasibility, Potential Value and Limitations of Establishing a Closely Monitored Challenge Model of Experimental COVID-19 Infection and Illness in Healthy Young Adult Volunteers: Draft Report

06/15/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 6/15/2020. This 81-page draft report about the concept of volunteer challenge studies with SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 is available for public comment. It represents a preparatory strategy so that if conditions are deemed appropriate, there will be a technically valid roadmap of what needs to be done to initiate a closely monitored challenge model of SARS-CoV-2 infection. (PDF)