Ohio State recruiting essential workers for AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine trial

Restaurant and manufacturing employees, teachers, first responders and other essential workers are among priority groups recruited to test a Covid-19 vaccine that has started enrolling volunteers at Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center. OSU researchers are seeking about 500 adults for the study of the candidate vaccine developed by biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford. It requires a two-year commitment for follow-up tests; other priority groups are college…