volunteers – Health

VA Joins Pentagon in Recruiting Volunteers for COVID Vaccine Trials

This story also ran on USA Today. This story can be republished for free (details). The Department of Veterans Affairs is recruiting 8,000 volunteers for the Phase 3 clinical trials of at least four COVID-19 vaccine candidates at 20 federal medical facilities across the U.S., according to officials with the VA and Operation Warp Speed,… Read More »

UK to infect healthy volunteers in vaccine research trial

Health News Loading the player… LONDON (AP) — U.K. researchers are preparing to infect healthy young volunteers with the virus that causes COVID-19, becoming the first to announce plans to use the controversial technique to study the disease and potentially speed up development of a vaccine that could help end the pandemic. This type of… Read More »