Yes, that's right. > The first stage of this project will explore the feasibility of exposing healthy volunteers to COVID-19. In this initial phase, called the

Yes, that's right. > The first stage of this project will explore the feasibility of exposing healthy volunteers to COVID-19. In this initial phase, called the Virus Characterisation Study, the aim will be to discover the smallest amount of virus it takes to cause a person to develop COVID-19. [...] Once the characterisation study is completed, this Human Challenge Study model can be utilised to conduct COVID-19 Human Challenge Studies from mid-2021 subject to regulatory approvals. There are some more detailed writeups at https://www.gov.uk/government/news/worlds-first-coronavirus-human-challenge-study-receives-ethics-approval-in-the-uk https://www.gov.uk/government/news/worlds-first-coronavirus-... and https://hvivo.com/the-human-challenge-programme/ https://hvivo.com/the-human-challenge-programme/