By Cameron English
— Oct 31, 2024
As part of a challenge study conducted during the pandemic, 34 healthy volunteers were deliberately infected with SARS-CoV-2 to assess the potential cognitive impacts of COVID-19. Everything about the experiment, from its timing to its design, was suspect and almost certainly unethical.
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Volunteers were infected with the COVID virus in order to ascertain whether there were cognitive effects of infection. It represented the failure of safeguards against unethical experiments.
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Cameron English
Director of Bioscience
Cameron English is a writer, editor and co-host of the Science Facts and Fallacies Podcast. Before joining ACSH, he was managing editor at the Genetic Literacy Project.
