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Vaccines

Meet the humble doctor who put Cincinnati at the forefront of COVID-19 vaccine trials

Portrait of Terry DeMio Terry DeMio
Cincinnati Enquirer
Dr. Bob Frenck, National Institutes of Health Funded vaccine research center, speaks with a resident of the West End about the COVID-19 vaccine on June 11, 2021.

CINCINNATI — The little boy with orange hair and a spray of freckles adorning his face walked into the basketball gymnasium at his mother’s side to see a winding line of people and long tables and nurses in white uniforms.

Bobby, 5, stepped forward when it was his turn.

“The first nurse handed me a little white cup.”