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Buddy Creech, director, Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, is helping lead some of the NIH-funded treatment trials of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Creech, who is also a volunteer for Reunion 2020, adds that they are also dedicating a great deal of time and energy developing new ways to test the immune responses in patients who have recovered from COVID.