PLANO (WBAP/KLIF) – A Plano doctor is asking for volunteer for a COVID-19 vaccine trial that is underway in North Texas.
Research Your Health, headed by Dr. Jeffrey Adelglass, is looking for participants who want to make a contribution to advance COVID-19 research and help to mitigate the pandemic. According to Dr. Adelglass, earlier studies of the Novavax vaccine have shown promise with some of the segments of society that have been hardest hit, such as African Americans, Latinx, Native Americans and Asian-Americans.
The doctor is also specifically interested in participants at high risk of exposure, such as first responders, teachers, hospitality, delivery and essential workers, and
active and retired military.
“This virus knows no boundaries,” Adelglass said. “Wealth, position, race or ethnicity, it attacks equally.”
He said that in some communities the virus impacts Americans disproportionately.
“For example, in the African American community, five times as many people contract the disease as in the general population,” insisted Adelglass. “And here in Texas, the LatinX community represent over 43% of those having contracted the virus.
According to RYH, a notable distinction separating the Novavax vaccine from many of the others is that it is a protein-based vaccine. The doctor said that protein-based vaccines contain coronavirus proteins, but no genetic
material.
Adelglass, who has been directing clinical trials in North Texas since 1989, is running this study through his Plano location, at 6020 W. Parker Rd. /Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano, Professional Building 2. Those interested in participating can call 214.550.0354 or 972.999.1155 to see if they qualify.
Listen to Clayton Neville’s story below:
Copyright 2020. WBAP/KLIF News. All Rights Reserved.