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SHARENorthwestern Medicine is seeking up to 5,000 people to take part in upcoming vaccine studies to prevent COVID-19 infection.The medical center said Monday it is signing up those at high-risk for exposure to the coronavirus for a newly launched Prevention Trials Registry.La Voz AARPLea este artículo en español en , un servicio presentado por AARP Chicago.“We want to recruit participants in the Chicago area who are at risk for exposure to COVID-19 and who are potentially interested in participating in different studies for prevention of the infection,” Dr. Karen Krueger, a Northwestern Medicine physician and instructor in infectious diseases at Feinberg School of Medicine, said in a written statement.The first study is expected to start next month. The Phase 3 trial will test the effectiveness of a vaccine byAstraZeneca that was found safe and boosted antibody responses in Phase 1 and 2 trials, the statement said.The drug will be tested at Northwestern’s Streeterville campus and at Lake Forest and Central DuPage hospitals.RelatedThe registry is seeking adults who work in jobs that put them at higher risk for exposure, including in health care facilities, grocery stores, retail, public transportation or factories. Those who work in nursing homes or other “congregated living facilities” are also being sought.Northwestern also wants those “disproportionately affected by COVID-19” — such as people with health conditions, seniors, African Americans, Latinos or Native Americans — to sign up.“We are casting a really wide net so we can make sure we have enough people identified and ready to go for upcoming studies,” Krueger said.For more information, contact&nbsp;&nbsp;or call (312) 694-0414. Or go to&nbsp; website.Next Up InMost ReadThe LatestDarren Bailey, a downstate farmer and state senator, confirmed he’s living in Chicago at an impromptu news conference Tuesday afternoon. His campaign later confirmed he is renting in the Hancock Center.The iconic “enfant terrible” of the French New Wave revolutionized popular cinema starting in 1960. A family statement gave assisted suicide, which is legal in Switzerland where the filmmaker resided, as the cause of his death.Dr. Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr. has been suspended after the fellow doctor’s death and others suffering serious cardiac complications, the Texas Medical Board said.Amtrak suspended routes from Chicago to Los Angeles, Chicago to Seattle, Chicago to San Francisco. It also suspended routes running from Los Angeles to San Antonio.It’s too early to celebrate the dawn of a new era, but even skeptics have to admit that Eberflus’ season-opening upset was notable for two things: there was no fluke factor, and there were minimal red flags.

SHARENorthwestern Medicine is seeking up to 5,000 people to take part in upcoming vaccine studies to prevent COVID-19 infection.The medical center said Monday it is signing up those at high-risk for exposure to the coronavirus for a newly launched Prevention Trials Registry.La Voz AARPLea este artículo en español en , un servicio presentado por AARP Chicago.“We want to recruit participants in the Chicago area who are at risk for exposure to COVID-19 and who are potentially interested in participating in different studies for prevention of the infection,” Dr. Karen Krueger, a Northwestern...

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