Alabamians in COVID clinical trial want real vaccine if they received placebo
Updated Jan 07, 2021;
Posted Jan 07, 2021
Close-up of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. The first COVID-19 vaccines given in central Alabama were administered at the Birmingham VA Medical Center just after 3 p.m. today. The three veterans were all POW s from World War II and the Korean War. (Joe Songer | jsonger@al.com).Joe Songer | jsonger@al.com
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By Marian Accardi The Decatur Daily, Ala. (TNS) and Tribune Media Services
Several local residents in a clinical trial that led to the first emergency-use authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States now plan to get the vaccination if they received a placebo for the study.