This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Let me welcome somebody in who absolutely wants to see a better world.

She is a board certified preventive medicine and public health position.

She's amazing. We had her on before a few months about ago, and she was talking about her dad

succumbing to COVID-19.

And now today I want to have her back because I think she's involved in this vaccine trial.

Let me welcome back to the show Dr. Chris Purnell, welcome back.

Good to be here.

So much this happened to the Black Friday.

Please fill us in.

Tell us, tell us what has happened.

So as you know, unfortunately, coronavirus is still raging.

The pandemic is still out of control and it's out of control across the nation and I think citizens the public is just beleaguered. We're seeing fatigue I can tell you health care workers are fatigued.

Health care workers have been holding the line for over eight, nine months continuously and

it's a lot, it's taken its toll, but we're into in the winter months. We're in the time that's

predicted to be most difficult because people are indoors, people are cramped or

even crowded indoors, but we do have some bright spots. We do have two vaccines that are right now going to be considered for emergency use authorization.

One of those vaccines that's being considered was sponsored by Moderna. That is the trial that I participated in. So I got my first injection, the end of August. I got my second injection in the beginning of October.

It felt pretty mundane and routine.

I can tell you when I got the first injection,

it felt like my flu vaccine shot,

just pain and tenderness at the injection site.

The second injection was different, however.

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