Meet the Austrian scientist volunteering as human guinea pig in fight against COVID-19

Dr. Christian Fercher UQ Proband COVID 19 Impfstoff Australien

Dr Fercher is one of the 120 people who are participating in phase-1 of UQ's COVID-19 vaccine trial. Source: UQ

Dr Christian Fercher is one of the first people in Australia to receive an experimental dose of the COVID-19 vaccine being developed by scientists at the University of Queensland. The 33-year-old migrant received the vaccine in mid-July but not before assuring his mother in Austria that the trial would be safe.



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