A pop concert for 4,000 audience members is being staged in Germany to track how Covid-19 spreads in large indoor events. Participants this morning lined up to take part in the RESTART-19 transmission risk assessment at Leipzig arena. The study, organised by the University Hospital of Halle, simulates a live concert venue in three different … Read more
Andrew Lloyd Webber volunteers for experimental COVID-19 study working towards a vaccine: ‘I’ll do anything to prove that theatres can re-open safely’ By Kevin Kayhart For Dailymail.com Published: 05:33 BST, 13 August 2020 | Updated: 05:33 BST, 13 August 2020 Andrew Lloyd Webber is walking the talk in the effort to stamp out COVID-19 and … Read more
A crumpled blue shirt and cords, beaten-up brown lace-ups and five-day stubble – it’s the classic, bookish Oxford student uniform that makes Seán McPartlin seem an unlikely hero in the war against Covid-19. But that’s exactly what he might become. Astonishingly, the 22-year-old philosophy postgraduate student is one of a handful of men and women … Read more
The two British scientists at the forefront of the hunt for a coronavirus vaccine have clashed over a controversial plan to deliberately infect people with the virus. Professor Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute at Oxford University, is in the advanced stages of setting up a human trial for one of the most promising … Read more
It was no routine shot in the arm. Last week university professor Gary Stradiotto became one of 30,000 volunteers helping to test a vaccine in the world’s biggest COVID-19 study. Stradiotto, 52, an adjunct professor of Political Science at the University of San Diego, volunteered for the final phase of the Moderna study and received his … Read more
Professor Sarah Gilbert said it would not be safe for them to do a so-called ‘challenge trial’ of Oxford University’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate An Oxford academic today dismissed the idea of deliberately infecting volunteers with Covid-19 to test the university’s experimental vaccine because no treatment currently exists to keep patients safe. Hopes of ending the Covid-19 … Read more
Healthy people should be purposely infected with the coronavirus to speed up the development of a vaccine, according to a group of 100 leading experts that includes Nobel Prize-winning scientists. Controversial ‘challenge trials’ could rapidly accelerate studies on experimental jabs which are struggling to recruit volunteers because of falling Covid-19 infection rates, the group says. … Read more
Sophie the shop girl! Countess of Wessex helps out at a children’s hospice charity shop as she continues her volunteering efforts amid the COVID-19 crisis Sophie Wessex, 55, has spent time with volunteers at Weybridge charity shop The Countess of Wessex is the patron of Shooting Star Children’s Hospices She gave a helping hand at … Read more
A group of volunteers including four Army cadets cleaned up a memorial to Winston Churchill in London this morning after it was defaced by activists during yesterday’s violent Black Lives Matter protests. The men scrubbed graffiti off the statue one day after the phrase ‘was racist’ was added in spray paint by protesters below the … Read more
Prince Harry praises young volunteers who are delivering food packages to the vulnerable in London during a video call with charities and says ‘helping people makes you feel better’ Prince Harry, 35, spoke with young volunteers from Sport at the Heart charity Thanked volunteers who are delivering food packages to the vulnerable In April, Meghan, … Read more