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Professor Deepak Sarma explains why he participated in COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial

MEDIA | December 22, 2020
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF

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AARPDeepak Sarma, professor of religious studies at the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of bioethics at the School of Medicine, discussed his motivations for participating in a COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial: “...brown and Black lives do matter and the data that my participation would generate would provide lifesaving knowledge regarding underrepresented people,” said Sarma.