nomminnate

I'm not one of the OPs but I'm also signed up to volunteer with 1daysooner. One of the goals of the organization is to try to make it more likely that a challenge trial would happen by 1. Getting a list of volunteers ahead of time 2. Telling their stories so the ethics boards of the world can see that there are normal people who are willing to take this risk for the good of others. There's already been a survey that has gone out to ask about what we thought our risk during the trial would be, if we are just doing this because we assume we'll get it and this guarantees health care, and what our risk taking is like in general.

Fauci has been quoted as saying challenge doses are being prepared but he hopes they won't need to be used so it is being prepped for. The trial would be run by a vaccine developer like a normal clinical trial, just in this case the trial design would involve deliberate infection. That design would have to be approved by an IRB like anything else.

As for payment, I think the argument is that being paid coerces people to take risks that could cause them serious harm and it's not ethical to do that. This is the same logic as how voluntary kidney donors are treated. I could not disagree with this more and it's possible we would get paid, nothing about this is set in stone, but that's the closest comparison we have.

I am also signed up as a volunteer with 1 day sooner and I feel like I have no idea what to picture the experience being like. I definitely agree it would be memorable. My best guess is that it's like being an in patient at a hospital, which was kind of boring in my prior experience.

Do you think it will be boring having to be in a medical facility to 4-8 weeks during the trial?