COVID-19: UK to test COVID-19 virus In the human body – BBC Thai
UK’s leading government, public health authorities and universities Will join in a trial in which healthy young volunteers will be exposed to the virus Enter the body for the first time in the world. It is hoped that the experiment will help scientists determine how much the body has to be exposed to the virus to infect COVID-19 and the human immune system responds to the virus that causes it. How the disease occurs
It will also help the treating physician better understand the symptoms of the disease, which will affect the development of vaccines and appropriate treatment methods.
The trial is now approved by a committee on medical ethics. And in the coming weeks, 90 volunteers aged 18-30 will begin to join the program. During the trial, these volunteers were to be monitored for their safety. Have a doctor to monitor the health conditions all the time.
In the past, these experiments with the introduction of the virus into the human body have played an important role in the development of treatments for many diseases. Including malaria, typhoid, cholera and colds
The Human Challenge study is a collaboration between the UK Government’s Vaccine Working Group. Imperial College University The Royal Free London Foundation and hVIVO pioneered the development of the experiment.
Mr. Kylef Dix Acting Chair of the Vaccine Working Group He saw that even now there is a safe and effective vaccine against COVID-19. But there is still a need to develop new vaccines and treatments for the disease.
“We hope that this study will provide an in-depth look at the virus and understand which vaccines provide the best protection against infection.”
Initially, the study was to expose volunteers to the virus that has spread in the UK since the outbreak of last March. Later, a number of volunteers will receive a approved vaccine. Then it will get another virus. Experiments like this will help scientists figure out which vaccines are most effective.
More than 15 million UK residents are now receiving the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and there are early signs that the death rate among older people 80 and older is falling, however, the data shows. About the number of patients and the information from the hospital is not clear. It is difficult to distinguish whether the lower mortality is due to vaccines or because of lockdown measures.
Thailand found 175 new cases of infection
In Thailand, Dr. Taweesil Wissanu Yothin, a spokesman for the Coronavirus Outbreak Situation Management Center 2019 (FABC), revealed today (February 17) that the number of new infections increased by 175. The total number of infections were 168 in the country, 54 of which were new from surveillance and service systems, 114 of proactive community searches and 7 of those from foreign countries were in state-provided quarantine facilities.
Thailand currently has a cumulative total of 24,961 cases, including 82 deaths and 1,182 treatment patients, while the government insists that Thailand will receive 200 hundred thousand doses of the vaccine from China to be injected into Thais in a month. This february
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