United Airlines announced it has expanded its customer COVID-19 testing efforts to include flights out of Houston to select destinations in Latin America and the Caribbean.
United passengers departing from George Bush Intercontinental Airport on December 7, 2020, will have the option to take a self-collected, mail-in coronavirus test that meets local entry requirements for certain countries, such as Aruba, Belize, and The Bahamas.
The self-collected, mail-in COVID-19 test costs $119.
Pre-Testing Prior to Flying South on United
Human-Challenge COVID-19 Vaccine Study Contemplated
Researchers in the Netherlands based at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) announced they are preparing to launch a “human challenge trial,” in which willing volunteers would be deliberately exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus under controlled conditions to test vaccines and study the disease.
These researchers have not yet decided to conduct the trial, which would still need regulatory approval to begin, stated a press release issued on November 25, 2020.
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