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Testing for the coronavirus was an important part of fi ghting the pandemic.
Dr. Amy Acton, director of the Ohio Department of Health, and Lt. Governor Jon Husted hold a COVID briefi ng. BARBARA J. PERENIC
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Clermont County residents can help officials fi ll a COVID-19 pandemic time capsule. PROVIDED
Clermont County preparing COVID-19 time capsule Jeanne Houck | Cincinnati Enquirer | USA TODAY NETWORK
Clermont County offi cials are inviting residents to help them fi ll a COVID-19 pandemic time capsule with their thoughts in writing, pictures and items related to the health crisis. h The project is sponsored by the Board of County Commissioners and the Coalition for a Drug-Free Clermont County. Clermont County Health Commissioner Julianne Nesbit helps unload a new shipment of N95 respirators, surgical masks, face shields and gloves.
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Pioneer Fence Company, in Milford, plays off of stopping the spread of the coronavirus with advertising that they now install social distancing barriers.
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Pam Haverkos, director of the Clermont County Emergency Management Agency, gives PPE to Bill DeHass (left) and Greg Carson of Clermont Senior Services. PROVIDED
Clermont County Public Health representatives collect donations at the department's fi rst personal protective equipment drop-off day on March 26. PROVIDED
Clermont County officials are inviting residents to help them fi ll a COVID-19 pandemic time capsule with their thoughts in writing, pictures and items related to the health crisis. PROVIDED
Putting ‘others fi rst’ by volunteering to test a vaccine Anne Saker Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
The tide of research in coronavirus medicine is rising in Southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky, and hundreds of residents like Anna Knierim of Miamitown have volunteered to participate in clinical trials for a vaccine. “The fact that I am able to do something when everything seems to be on fi re around us, I think, can I help control the fi res?” she said. As early as next month, UC Health will start testing on one prospect that already has shown promise at other test sites. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is running a trial for another group of candidates. More drugmakers are looking to get into the Cin-
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cinnati region, said Tim Schroeder, chief executive offi cer of CTI, the Covington clinical research organization that runs testing for new drugs and recruits participants. “In a typical week, I have three to four companies come in to talk about studies,” Schroeder said, and the region’s hospitals are eager to participate. He would not name the companies approaching CTI, but, “If this were happening in Boston or Palo Alto, it would be all over the news, this kind of collaboration. But we’re doing things in our own humble, Midwestern way.” Humans have no natural immunity to the new coronavirus. Vaccines take years of development, but the severity of the 2020 pandemic has accelerated eff orts to forge a pharmaceutical pre-
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ventive. The clinicaltrials.gov website lists 32 trials for a coronavirus vaccine in all stages of development across the country. There’s no schedule yet of when a vaccine will be delivered, no planning yet of who would get it fi rst, and no discussion about how much a vaccine would cost or, in some cases, who would pay for it. In research medicine, a key step is recruiting enough participants to test a drug. CTI, which already keeps a database of 40,000 potential subjects, created a separate list in May for people willing to test coronavirus vaccines. Schoeder was the fi rst to sign up, and CTI put out the word, and hundreds See VACCINE, Page 2A
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Eric Thompson of Anderson Township is part of a database of 10,000 people who could be part of CTI's clinical trials to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. "To have CTI be a leader in vaccine studies and seeing their success just made me want to be involved in it" Thompson said. GRACE PRITCHETT/THE ENQUIRER
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