Powerful, illuminating and sobering—that’s the description from a research group summing up its initial listening sessions with front-line workers and minority groups about a vaccine.

Tasked with tapping key audiences to learn their questions and concerns about a COVID-19 vaccine—and determine how the FDA might best respond—the nonprofit Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA is currently in listening mode on the project, CEO Susan Winckler said.

The foundation is focusing on front-line workers, including healthcare and retail employees as well as traditionally underrepresented groups, including Black, LatinX and Native Americans.

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