179 - Why a COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Feels Better Than Ever About COVID Vaccines
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, safety and speed are critical for developing an effective vaccine which means finding lots of volunteers for clinical trials. Georgia Lewis signed up for the Pfizer clinical trial and has received two doses of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine. Lewis, a pediatric nurse practitioner, talks with Stephanie Desmon about why she volunteered, her experience with this and another clinical trial she participated in, and why her involvement is helping her communicate about the efficacy and safety of vaccines to her patients and their parents.
KEYWORDS: vaccine authorization; vaccine trial; herd immunity
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 2 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:18.7 | and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:21.9 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence and experience to the public health news of the day |
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| 0:47.8 | episodes. Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Georgia Lewis, a pediatric nurse practitioner who's |
| 0:53.9 | enrolled in the |
| 0:54.6 | Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trial. |
| 0:57.9 | They discuss why she decided to take part in the research, how she felt after receiving her |
| 1:02.6 | two doses, and why trust is so important for vaccination. |
| 1:07.9 | Let's listen. |
| 1:09.4 | Georgia Lewis, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:11.5 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:12.7 | So Georgia, you are a nurse practitioner. |
| 1:15.2 | And more importantly for today is you or a volunteer for the Pfizer COVID vaccine trial. |
| 1:22.2 | Yep. |
| 1:22.9 | So I'm wondering if you could tell me about that experience and how you became involved in what it was like. |
| 1:28.6 | So I got an email from, I'm a pediatric nurse practitioner, and so I get emails from other |
| 1:33.4 | pediatric clinics in the area, and they were sending out like these weekly COVID updates. |
| 1:38.9 | And at the bottom of one was, hey, we're going to be offering the opportunity if you're interested to sign up for one of |
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