UAB doctor shares history that led to COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough, hoping to calm concerns

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UAB doctor shares history that led to COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough, hoping to calm concerns

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - One researcher at UAB is trying to answer a major concern people have about how fast COVID-19 vaccines were developed. Alabama ranks 49th in the U.S. in COVID vaccinations per 100,000.Doctor Moon Nahm, the Director of UAB's Bacterial Respiratory Pathogen Reference Laboratory says it was hesitation by his own family that prompted him to write an article about the history leading to the development of COVID-19 vaccines."They we…