Challenge Trials for COVID-19 Trials Beginning

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

Okay. Perhaps I missed what you were saying.

Rereading the letter, this is the core request they are making;

@swamidass

The undersigned urge the U.S. government (including, but not limited to the Coronavirus Task Force, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and Congress), its allies, international funders, and world bodies (e.g. the World Health Organization), to undertake immediate preparations for human challenge trials, including supporting safe and reliable production of the virus and any biocontainment facilities necessary to house participants.

If we are going to do challenge trials, and we likely are, it seems like these are things governments should probably be doing at this time.