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Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first by Zanni on Saturday May 01, 2021 @08:30AM (#27005751)
That's called variolation [0], and it was floated early on by some pundits, but not seriously. It faces the same sort of pushback as challenge trials.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation

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Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first by amluto on Saturday May 01, 2021 @10:27AM (#27006569)
Sort of. Variolation also involved intentionally inoculating with a naturally occurring less deadly strain. Also, introducing intentional Covid infections in a naive population would likely infect many contacts of the inoculated patients before they got inoculated, which would defeat the purpose.
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