The people who get paid to get sick

I went inside the former hotel where, for science (and money), people are volunteering to get colds, flu, and RSV. ■ Challenge trials looking for volunteers: https://flucamp.com/ and https://www.1daysooner.org/recruiting-challenge-studies
This isn’t an advert! the subject was suggested by the team at 1DaySooner, but that’s it: no money changed hands and no editorial control was given away.
Two bonus facts I couldn’t fit in the main video:
😷 There are some challenge trials which require stronger quarantine protocols or negative-pressure rooms, but they’re much more rare (and much more difficult to film)
🧻 The tissues that volunteers sneeze into have to be put into a separate bag, so they can be weighed
Camera by Jamie MacLeod
Edited by Julian Domanski
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@TomScottGo
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
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@douglasnorrie5925
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
2 weeks eating, sleeping any playing vid games – be like working on the rigs again.
@AlisonCrossley
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
He couldnt afford yet they pay you ??
@ikbintom
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
You could participate now, Tom
@Fatlittledominocat
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
1:23 I can't be the only one who stole Tom's handwashing technique from this video
@chriscoughlan5221
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Didnt a group of people volunteers do a clinical trial for a cancer drug, and suffered serious side effects?
@AxeSoul
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
hey, with your retirement you can now get sick!
@DarylFoster-c9c
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
They made it look like a food trial. Narcissistic and when you go to the website they lead you to places were you can go and eat. Sadistic. Think I'd walk into a place like that and have some snob walk all over me . *** that
@DarylFoster-c9c
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
£4000 they are taking the ** ritch upper class sadists exploiting poor people for as little as £4000.
@darrenonions6413
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Do you get paid before or after???? Do you pay tax on it??
@mrscorpiation6895
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
33, 18 stone, asthmatic and Addison's disease. I would love to do it, give me the fluuuuu. Signed up so i hope i get accepted but doubt it, i'll pay you for the break haha
@EmmaGrace2222
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
I wonder if this is tax free?
@_emmaxx9
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Very tempted for 4k
@Mersoh
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Imagine the money you could make combining this with remote work
@joshuaboam1888
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
I just applied for the asthma trials
@parvesh.5_357
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
I thought they use xbox
@QSBraWQ
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
They probably pay now a lot less because of extra publicity from this
@some10-9
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
They pay you 4k and then make millions of the drugs that wouldn't be allowed to be sold without these trials. Its all a giant scam
@Cylonknight
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
As long as they let me bring my computer in and some hand weights I'm golden
@BreakyTime
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
These volunteers are heroes
@lxvideos1125
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Im not sure about so much information on the person doing it, not only that you have the persons data but you got their DNA, blood type etc.. the company gets way more than the £4.5k
@Sophie-wq5ct
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Sorry did you say 4K for two weeks?
@t0rya
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
I wish i would be able to do this. Getting sick and staying at a funky hospital (wich i already do a lot) but with cool quality of life things AND getting paid for it!?
@SimplyASquid
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Damn im doing the same thing with rsv, accept I didnt volunteer for this, and im not getting paid, and this sucks
@deltasource56
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
food?
@futurevegan8617
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Heh. I'm not sure I'd want to do this for a job, but it does look like it might be easier on a person's body to do this 8 times a year over working in a factory like I do.
@Jamrge
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
I had rsv 4 days ago…
@MrShadowRaiden
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
i think its fair. end of the day and this doesnt get said enough but these people are a needed part of saving lives around the world with various diseases that over time we have found new cures/vaccines for.
and like any "job" in a sense you are compensated for giving up your time. this is how ive always seen a job im being paid for my time and this is the same case here.
@MimmaHappunchMaria
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Fortune for him , he is not cowardly and is helping Doctors, so much , Doctors are main Authority while reciting new Medicines no one has ever heard before; I like this market similar to blood donations
@Charted
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
New covid variant pending 💯
@suzanneoleander3224
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Every kindergarden teacher does this but with much lower pay 😅
@annetteslife
October 12, 2024 at 3:11 am
Did I hear this guy right? A vaccine for a cold? 😅😅😅😂😂