AdvertisementAnalysisWhy I'm A Vaccine Volunteer: Doing What Needs To Be DoneDecember 13, 2020Howard BerkesfacebookEmailHoward 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. (Berkes family)