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Oxford Starts First Study to Reinfect Recovered Covid Patients

  • Researchers seek 64 healthy, previously infected volunteers
  • Challenge trials hold advantages for studying viral activity
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Oxford Begins Trial to Reinfect Recovered Covid-19 Patients

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People who have fought off the Covid-19 virus will be deliberately reinfected in a first-of-its-kind trial at the University of Oxford that may shed light on how to develop more effective vaccines against the pathogen.