british government has said it is open to such studies microbiology is from reading university sonnen clarke believes that desperate times to call for desperate measures. are unusual of course if we had effective treatments the rush for a back seat would probably wouldn't be so be so strong it's not optimal one optimal way of doing it ideally you'd let people get the. virus normally but need to must live a double drive with our backs are against the wall on base and we've really got to be able to come up with a vaccine in pretty short order so i think some people think this is a way of doing it you know you need to it's a sub optimal way of doing trials no 2 ways about it the fact is that hospitals in this country in the spring were gummed up by lots and lots of people who were seriously ill many of whom were literally unable to breathe and needed the attention of intensive care that meant that that sort of hospitals were unable to discharge their normal caseload stuff and that was the basic problem. we know moscow has called on people in high risk groups in particular to only go out if esse