Coronavirus vaccine trials: Chinese volunteers recount their experiences
- 108 people aged 18-60 from Wuhan have been injected with a potential vaccine developed by a Chinese pharmaceutical firm and the military
- One says that by taking part she can ‘rise above the simple interests of a normal person for once’
According to information published on China’s clinical trial registry, the volunteers – aged from 18 to 60 and in good health – were divided into three groups of 36 and then given either a low, medium or high dose of the vaccine at a facility owned by the city’s armed police force.
In a report by Science Daily, Wang Junzhi, a fellow at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that after receiving their injections, the participants would spend 14 days in quarantine under close medical observation.
In a rare move, some of the volunteers took to social media to recount their experiences to the public.
“I was a bit fearlessly naive when I signed up,” said a young woman with the nickname Xiao Mi, who was in the low dosage group.
“It only took a day from me being notified to getting the injection,” she said on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform.
