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    Commentary: How I became a soldier in the fight against COVID-19

    by Paul Thornton, Los Angeles Times Nov 19, 2020 3 minutes

    I was feeling dejected and powerless in August when I typed my name and contact information into an online database for vaccine studies, hoping someone might want my help.

    California was seeing its second COVID-19 pandemic surge, and my children had just learned their school wouldn't reopen in the fall. My brother, a 37-year-old lawyer in San Francisco, had become severely ill with the coronavirus in March and was still struggling. And my mother, a longtime

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