Local COVID-19 vaccine trial recipient speaks out

While misinformation is spreading about the COVID-19 vaccines, one local woman who took part in a vaccine trial is speaking out in order to encourage others to get the vaccine.

NEW THIS MORNING....WHILEMANY ARE ANXIOUSLY AWAITINGTHEIR TURN TO GET THE COVID-19VACCINE... ONE LOCAL WOMANJUST LEARNED SHE'S ALREADYBEEN VACCINATED.

THAT WOMANWAS ONE OF ABOUT 30-THOUSANDPEOPLE WHO WERE PART OF THEMODERNA VACCINE TRIAL.

WCPO'SALLY KRAEMER SPOKE TO HERABOUT WHY SHE ENROLLED, HERSIDE EFFECTS AND THE IMPACTIT'S NOW HAVING ON HER LIFE.LIBBIE CRAWFORD WAS ACTUALLYDRIVING DOWN ROUTE 32 INEASTGATE WHEN SHE SAW ABILLBOARD ADVERTISING ACOVID-19 VACCINE TRIAL.SHESAYS SHE IS A WOMAN WHOBELIEVES IN THE SCIENCE, SOSHE SIGNED UP.THIS PHOTO TAKEN JUST DAYSAGO SHOWS 64-YEAR-OLD LIBBIEAND HER VACCINATION CARD.SHEREQUESTED TO BE UNBLINDED FROMTHE TRIAL SO SHE COULD FINDOUT IF SHE RECEIVED THEVACCINE OR THE PLACEBO.OFCOURSE SHE LEARNED SHE IN FACTRECEIVED THE VACCINE.SHE SAYSSHE DIDN'T REALLY HAVE MANYSIDE EFFECTS - A SORE ARM ANDMAYBE A HEADACHE AFTER THESECOND INJECTION.LIBBIE SAYSSHE WASN'T NERVOUS ABOUT THETRIAL OR RECEIVING THE VACCINEBECAUSE SHE'S WIDOWED, NOCHILDREN AND SHE HAD ANEIGHBOR NEXT DOOR THAT COULDHELP IF SHE DID DEVELOP ANADVERSE SIDE EFFECT.FRANKLY,SHE SAYS SHE BELIEVES IN WHATRESEARCHERS ARE DOING TOBETTER SOCIETY AND FELT IT WASHER DUTY."For me it was importantbecause my sister has anauto-immune disease, two of myreally good friends haveauto-immune diseases.

Thebetter information that we canhave on these kinds of thingsand for people like me whodon't have any underlyinghealth conditions, if we canforward the cause of science,that's important."LIBBIE SAYS SHE'S STILLWEARING A MASK, STAYING 6 FEETAPART, WASHING HER HANDSFREQUENTLY.

NONE OF THAT HASCHANGED FOR HER.BUT SHE'SSHARING HER STORY TO ENCOURAGEOTHERS TO GET THE VACCINE.REPORTING LIVE, AK, WCPO 9