When Trials Spectacularly Fail What Will Happen Next?
Another virus challenge trial spectacularly fails... ...showing us how little we actually know. Jonathan Engler May 05, 2024 60 28 10 Share A study has been published in the Lancet journal Microbe reporting on the spectacular failure of scientists to deliberately infect a group of volunteers with “covid” 1 . Click in the picture below to go to a commentary in Nature about the study: In the study, scientists tried to deliberately infect 36 previously infected 2 people with “covid”. They induced illness in - wait for it - zero . Yep, nobody. Zilch. Here is the methods section from the abstract: And the results (an epic fail!): The last part of the abstract above describes how 14 of the 36 volunteers “subsequently developed breakthrough infection with the omicron variant after discharge from quarantine”. Rather than admitting the limitations of their knowledge and the utter fruitlessness of their endeavours, incredibly the authors interpret this t...