Once they were vaccinated, he says, they moved on to deciding, as a family, on whether to enroll their girls in the clinical trials."They are old enough to remember the 'before,'" and their lives at in-person school and other activities, Gerardo says. They were game. Even at 9, ''the pandemic has profoundly impacted their lives and the lives of all their friends," Gerardo says.
"It's important to have racial and ethnic diversity in the clinical trials themselves," says Gerardo, who is of Mexican descent."There is a fair amount of vaccine hesitancy in the Latino community. It is good for some of the people to see that some of the participants in this trial are Mexican-American girls.
Part of her comfort might originate from her childhood, she says, when her mother, a pediatric resident at the time, enrolled her in a trial for a vaccine for Hib, an infection common in children. Their decision to enroll all four children, she says, is supported by two goals."We like to contribute to the science and to have our family protected."