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FALL RIVER A group of Fall River health care providers who participated in a COVID-19 vaccine study are looking to spread the word that the available vaccines for the highly contagious virus are safe and effective. “We’re believers in vaccines. We’ve seen what vaccines have done in the last 30 or 40 years,” said Dr. Walter Rok, a practitioner at Pediatric Associates of Fall River. He pointed to the precipitous decline in infections from meningitis and similar diseases that have seen increasingly effective vaccines in recent years. “Vaccines save lives,” he said. “They work.” Trial participants Rok and seven of his coworkers recently volunteered to participate in a study run through Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston testing the effectiveness of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. ....