It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Two Covid challenge trials sponsored by Imperial College London and the University of Oxford started earlier this year in the U.K. They so far have exposed more than 40 healthy, young volunteers under isolated medical supervision to the original Wuhan strain that circulated widely in 2020.
Since then, the highly transmissible Delta variant has come to dominate infections globally, rendering vaccines less effective and boosting case numbers across the U.K., U.S. and elsewhere. Delta’s fast rise led researchers and U.K. challenge-trial partner hVivo Services Ltd. to focus on trying to grow the variant in the lab.
With colleagues in the Netherlands, hVivo has coaxed the Delta strain to mature through the seed stage, said Andrew Catchpole, hVivo’s chief scientific officer and a virologist, who oversees the virus manufacturing. The London clinical-research firm is continuing to grow the batch milliliter by milliliter from a specimen taken from an infected human.
Imperial and hVivo said in May they had signed a £3 million contract, equivalent to around $4.1 million, funded by the Wellcome Trust to manufacture emerging coronavirus variants. It wasn’t clear then which variants researchers could successfully grow in the lab. A Wellcome Trust spokesman declined to comment. An Imperial spokesman said variant production so far hasn’t reached the standards for clinical use, but that work is ongoing.
The challenge trials faced pushback from some U.K. academics and foreign researchers, as well as from some government officials, who considered them unsafe or otherwise unethical
originally posted by: gb540
First WHY are we playing with this kind of fire?
originally posted by: Hecate666
Before doing anything else, I'd like to know, and I mean via a peer reviewed paper, how on earth they know the sequency not only of covid but especially the delta variant?
Where do they get the relevant information from? They had to even 'make up' [apparently an educated guess, BECAUSE of the lack of a squence] a sequence.
Nobody as of today has even managed to isolate what they think is maybe covid.
So I ask again because my jaw is still hanging open. How do they know the sequence of the delta variant? And why on earth if they did would they make a vacc ine if we are already past the delta and well into some other greek letter variant?
They are really dumb. They don't know when to stop.
originally posted by: Hecate666
Before doing anything else, I'd like to know, and I mean via a peer reviewed paper, how on earth they know the sequency not only of covid but especially the delta variant?
Where do they get the relevant information from? They had to even 'make up' [apparently an educated guess, BECAUSE of the lack of a squence] a sequence.
Nobody as of today has even managed to isolate what they think is maybe covid.
So I ask again because my jaw is still hanging open. How do they know the sequence of the delta variant? And why on earth if they did would they make a vacc ine if we are already past the delta and well into some other greek letter variant?
They are really dumb. They don't know when to stop.