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Howard Berkes (seated, front row right) volunteered to be part of a COVID-19 research study this year. He says his family, photographed here in the 1960s, had a history of stepping up during difficult times. That includes his grandparents (in middle), who fled the pogroms of Eastern Europe in the 1920s to raise a family in the United States.

Why I'm A Vaccine Volunteer: Doing What Needs To Be Done

The power of family history can lead a person to do a lot of things. For Howard Berkes, the family tradition of facing crises head-on led him to sign up for experimental testing of a COVID-19 vaccine.

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