35% are completely asymptomatic, 45% have mild symptoms, 15% need hospitalization and 2-3% die, mostly old people. Set up a hotel in Vegas with 3000 rooms, 450

35% are completely asymptomatic, 45% have mild symptoms, 15% need hospitalization and 2-3% die, mostly old people. Set up a hotel in Vegas with 3000 rooms, 450 ICU beds. Start with people under 30 years old. Have people get infected with a weakened version of the virus. In the first 1 or 2 iterations of people, measure the antibodies in each person, and do a test for how long people are contagious for. We STILL don’t know this for a fact. Also measure how long it takes for people to become immune. Do tests like figure out which people are more susceptible to severe symptoms or which people are more likely to have asymptomatic symptoms. Again, we STILL don’t know this. Cycle the asymptomatic and non-contagious people out first and keep doing it until the ICU beds are full. As an ICU bed becomes empty add the appropriate number of people into the test to get them infected. This seems ethical to me. I bet a lot of younger people would be willing to do this especially if their chance of death is 0.1% or lower and they can go back to work sooner. Once we gather valuable data from this, then move up in terms of risk and keep going until we have herd immunity. I’m almost 50, with a few comorbidities but if I knew I would get a weakened version of the virus with dedicated bed and top health care, not only would I volunteer but I would also pay for it out of my own pocket. I’m sick of being afraid and part of the fear is the lack of understanding and misinformation that is being spread. We need science To answer a lot of questions but they aren’t very helpful right now, or at least they aren’t answering the questions we need. We need volunteers to get themselves infected so that we understand what is going on with this virus. if we can do this in a predictable and safe way and allow science to learn from it it’s a win win. We need to stop worrying about ethics especially if people are willing to volunteer themselves.