More than 16,000 people have shown support to being intentionally infected with the coronavirus to speed up vaccine development

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• More than 16,000 people showed support for being deliberately infected with the coronavirus to help bring about a vaccine faster. 
• The method of deliberately infecting people with a virus to test the effectiveness of a vaccine is called a human-challenge, and the World Health Organization said while it could be effective it should not be used with pathogens that have high fatality rates and no cures or treatments. 
• There's no approval from the Food and Drug Administration to allow for human-challenge trials, as of yet. 
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More than 16,000 people have shown interest in volunteering to speed up vaccine development for the new coronavirus by being intentionally infected with the virus, CNN reported. 

The method is called a human-challenge study, and it could expedite a vaccine study because it would give participants the virus after giving them the vaccine or placebo and monitoring the effectiveness of the vaccine, according to CNN. 

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