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COVID-19: Reinfection human challenge trial underway


Written by Robby Berman on April 22, 2021 Fact checked by Rita Ponce, Ph.D.
Scientists are planning a trial that will determine whether or not people who have had COVID-19 are now immune to the virus that causes it. STEVE PARSONS/Getty Images
Experts still have a lot to learn about the likelihood that people who have had COVID-19 can contract SARS-CoV-2 again.
Scientists at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom have announced a human challenge trial to gather hard, precise data that will provide a better understanding of how reinfection works.
Under carefully controlled conditions and for research purposes, scientists will reinfect the participants in the study with the original SARS-CoV-2 variant. ....

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The FINANCIAL - Human challenge trial launches to study immune response to COVID-19


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The FINANCIAL Though the COVID-19 pandemic has now been active for a year, not much is known about what happens when people who have already had COVID-19 are infected for a second time, Oxford University notes.
Researchers at the University of Oxford have launched a human challenge trial to look at what kind of immune response can stop people from becoming re-infected. They also want to see how the immune system reacts second time round. A human challenge trial in medical research is a carefully controlled study that involves purposefully infecting a subject with a pathogen or bug, in order to study the effects of that infection. ....

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