Just because many people write about it doesn't mean it's true.

A laboratory in England is said to be paying £3,500 for volunteers who become infected with the new coronavirus.

However, such an offer for volunteers cannot be found on the company's various pages.
On the contrary, the company denies on its website that it is looking for volunteers for such a study.

Many sites, from Focus to The Times to News to the Daily Star, report that a laboratory in Great Britain is paying volunteers £3,500 (around 4,000 euros) if they contract the new coronavirus get infected and stay in quarantine there for 14 days to get examined.

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Which laboratory should this be?

In the articles, all of which are based on articles from The Times and Daily Star , hVIVO is always mentioned as a company that is only waiting for permission from the British Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency but register now.

hVIVO ” is a company that carries out studies and services for pharmaceutical and biotech companies. We are always looking for volunteers for various studies who can register in “ Flucamp ”. Important: Only people from Great Britain can apply!

The studies

The company conducts several studies, including standard clinical cold and flu studies, including cold studies in asthmatics. Most studies last between 11 and 14 days, during which you are in quarantine, which is quite pleasant with your own room, Playstation 3, TV and WiFi.

The studies are paid £100 per day, for a maximum of £1,400 in total . The question now arises as to where the sum of 3,500 pounds comes from!

100 pounds a day, source: flucamp.com
100 pounds a day, source: flucamp.com

Not available: A COVID-19 study!

Exactly which studies are currently being carried out or will be carried out soon is not stated on the site, only the general information is that these are standard clinical tests to deepen the understanding of how a cold and flu work, how they affect different people and how they can best be treated.

Volunteers are also currently being sought to test treatments and vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza (FLU).

However, we are currently not looking for volunteers for studies on the new coronavirus!

“hVIVO” writes explicitly about this on the page :

“Flucamp is not recruiting volunteers for studies on Coronavirus at the moment. This is a line of research we are looking into – not with Covid-19 but with a safer, milder coronavirus which has been circulating in people for a long time – and we'll make announcements when we're ready to start."

In German:

“Flucamp is currently not recruiting volunteers for coronavirus studies . This is a line of research we are investigating – not with Covid-19, but with a safer, milder coronavirus that has long been circulating in people – and we will make announcements when we are ready to begin.”

No volunteers are being sought
No volunteers are being sought

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A similar study is planned – but not until the end of 2020

What is actually being planned: a clinical study with coronavirus strains such as OC43 and 229E. They come from the same virus family as SARS-CoV-2, but only cause mild, cold-like respiratory illnesses and are easier to treat.

Since these virus strains have great similarities with SARS-CoV-2, they are interesting for research into combating the new coronavirus.
On March 6th, “Open Orphan” announced the new contract with a European biotech company, and on March 9th the planned studies were described in more detail.

The first studies on the already known coronavirus strains will start this year; if successful, expanded studies will begin at the end of 2020.

Conclusion

Similar are being planned, but with known coronaviruses that support research on SARS-CoV-2 and the corresponding disease COVID-19.

However, no volunteers have been and are currently being sought to get infected with the new coronavirus and receive £3,500 for doing so!

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