A hotel is willing to pay you the above amount, if you accept a flu.
You know, in Missouri (USA) there is a very strange hotel. It’s called “Hotel Influenza” – roughly translated as Hotel flu. And the people who work at this hotel will pay you ,500 if you’re willing to take the flu.
Rest assured, this hotel also won’t let you die, but their mission is to take care of you, make you the most comfortable 24/24, and most importantly, not let you… run away during the contract execution time. .
In short, you will become a test subject, because this is a hotel belonging to the Vaccine Development Center of Saint Louis University (USA). Experts here are dealing with one of the biggest challenges facing humanity today: producing a flu vaccine.
If you accept the risk, you will be given a shot of the vaccine, then tested for certain strains of the virus to see if you will get infected. This is a research method according to the HCM (Human challenge model), which is different from the usual vaccine research method, which is to inject drugs and wait for the body to create antibodies.
After the injection, you will be in a hotel-standard room: with a gym, bathroom, TV and internet. And when the experiment ends, you will receive the aforementioned amount.
This is considered one of the most important facilities in the state of Missouri. It should be known that just one flu outbreak in 1918 killed 100 million people. The figure was equivalent to 5% of the total world population at that time.
Even today, when science has advanced so much, things are not better. Assuming there is a new flu outbreak, the US alone will have more than 56,000 deaths.
It should be known that influenza viruses have many strains, each with its own characteristics. The World Health Organization (WHO) will be tasked with predicting which strains of the virus are most common each year, and then producing vaccines accordingly. If unfortunately the virus evolves, or the line spreads not as expected, those vaccines will become ineffective.
Therefore, science is really serious to find a vaccine that is resistant to all virus strains. While not currently available, we have had some success in animals. And with this flu hotel, that future can completely become a reality.
But in general,… putting your head out to catch the flu is not something that many people want to do. Therefore, experts highly appreciate the volunteers participating in the program. They are people who are willing to sacrifice for the future of humanity (although mortality is very rare).