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KINGSPORT — As the first rounds of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are distributed to health care workers and nursing home residents, some local participants in the clinical trial are “anxiously waiting” to find out if they got the vaccine or a placebo. Most participants don’t know for sure which of the two they received. The vaccine has been given “emergency use authorization” but not yet FDA approval, so the participants are still part of an ongoing trial that is generating data for researchers. Retired Eastman Chemical Co. chemist Bill Tindall said Monday that he...

By RICK WAGNER KINGSPORT — Some participants in a local COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial for Pfizer report few to no immune responses. Participants who did experience immune responses reported sore arms, chills and fever similar to responses some people have to flu shots. Eastman Chemical Co. retired Ph.D. chemist Phil Smith said he had no reactions or complications from the shot he received on Sept. 21. Retired Eastman chemist Bill Tindall’s wife, Judy, said she and her husband also reported no issues. They were screened twice and then got their first shot Sept. 22 and the second fo...