Fauci, confirms to CNN that scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases are working to create a strain of coronavirus

Fauci, director of the NIAID, described this approach as a "Plan D" – and the work is still preliminary.

Human challenge trials are typically used when a virus is not widely circulating – the #coronavirus is – so this approach may not be necessary, according to Fauci.

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