For Anyone,

that wants a 2 week paid holiday,

and wants to help science, several companies as well as public sector organizations have reportedly begun offering volunteers a cash sum to get infected with a form of the highly-contagious coronavirus to aid the search for a vaccine, photograph Arek Socha/Pixabay, in the UK, a company called Hvivo runs a quarantine unit in a laboratory in east London where volunteers will be observed over a two week period, The Times reports that up to 24 people at a time will be paid to be infected with two strains of the coronavirus (0C43 and 229E), both of which can cause severe respiratory symptoms, “Drugs companies can get a very good idea within a few months of starting a vaccine study whether it’s working or not, using such a small sample of people,” said Andrew Catchpole, Hvivo’s chief scientist, for 14 days the quarantined volunteers will be monitored by doctors and nurses in protective gear, who will be their only human contact over that period. Swabs and dirty tissues will also be collected in order to measure the viral load. According to Professor John Oxford, an expert in virology at the Queen Mary University of London, the infected volunteers will likely experience mild symptoms of a cough or cold, and how much is on offer for your 2 weeks? apparently up to $4,500, not bad for as quoted, 'mild symptoms of a cough or cold'.