Volunteers filter into German arena so scientists can track how Covid-19 may spread at indoor events

A pop concert for 4,000 audience members is being staged in Germany to track how Covid-19 spreads in large indoor events.  Participants this morning lined up to take part in the RESTART-19 transmission risk assessment at Leipzig arena. The study, organised by the University Hospital of Halle, simulates a live concert venue in three different … Read more

Andrew Lloyd Webber volunteers for COVID-19 vaccine study ‘to prove theatres can re-open safely’

Andrew Lloyd Webber volunteers for experimental COVID-19 study working towards a vaccine: ‘I’ll do anything to prove that theatres can re-open safely’ By Kevin Kayhart For Dailymail.com Published: 05:33 BST, 13 August 2020 | Updated: 05:33 BST, 13 August 2020 Andrew Lloyd Webber is walking the talk in the effort to stamp out COVID-19 and … Read more

Is it ethical to infect volunteers with Covid-19 to test a vaccine?

A crumpled blue shirt and cords, beaten-up brown lace-ups and five-day stubble – it’s the classic, bookish Oxford student uniform that makes Seán McPartlin seem an unlikely hero in the war against Covid-19. But that’s exactly what he might become. Astonishingly, the 22-year-old philosophy postgraduate student is one of a handful of men and women … Read more

Coronavirus: Professor, 52, volunteers to take Moderna vaccine

It was no routine shot in the arm.  Last week university professor Gary Stradiotto became one of 30,000 volunteers helping to test a vaccine in the world’s biggest COVID-19 study. Stradiotto, 52, an adjunct professor of Political Science at the University of San Diego, volunteered for the final phase of the Moderna study and received his … Read more