Chattanooga's contribution to a Vaccine

Chattanooga is making a contribution to finding a vaccine.

ClinSearch is still looking for people to take part in trials.

Vaccines around the country.

News 12's winston reed breaks down why clinsearch is seeking volunteers from all walks of life.

Clinsearch is seeking 800 volunteers.

According to dr. mark mckenzie, those volunteers would take part in covid19 treatment and vaccine trials.

"we're not exposing them to covid.

They would get exposed to covid out in the community -potentially."

Dr. mckenzie says even with precautions, coronavirus is spreading rapidly.

"if you're going to get sick we want you to recover quickly.

If we can do something in one of these trials to prevent you from getting sick that's a win as well.

We're trying to get all that data so down the road we know how to treat the general public."

Standup: the copany is looking for people from different demographics to participate in the trial but not everyone is on board.

"it gives us better data.

It tells us 'okay, there's no difference in how this works on this segment of society whether you're living in a desnely populated city or out in the rural areas."

"i'm not taking no vaccine unless joe biden says it.

I just don't trust anything right now.

The vaccine, the economy, politics nothing."

Dr. mckenzie says medical ventures from the past may have caused minorities to resist participating in clinical trials.

"tuskegee is probably the biggest example of that syphillis trial."

For information on how you can volunteer in these clinical trials, go to our website, that's wdef dot com.

Reporting in chattanooga winston reed