273 - "This Is Our Shot": A Digital Campaign to End the Pandemic, One Vaccine At a Time
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Physicians play a crucial role in educating patients, who have lots of questions about COVID-19 vaccines. Drs. Jay Bhatt and Hussein Lalani are part of a digital campaign called This Is Our Shot that aims to drive out misinformation and elevate personal stories from physicians about getting COVID-19 vaccines. They talk with Stephanie Desmon about their work and how it's "drawing on the very best of humanity" to end the pandemic. You can learn more at www.thisisourshot.info.
KEYWORDS: health communication; vaccine hesitancy; health equity
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:19.6 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence |
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| 0:47.2 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith Rogers, producer of public health on call. Today, Stephanie Desmond talks |
| 0:52.2 | to doctors J-Batt and Hussein Lalani about how important |
| 0:55.9 | physicians can be in influencing others to get COVID-19 vaccines. They discuss how doctors can |
| 1:01.7 | counter misinformation, listen to patients with compassion, and how they have started a social |
| 1:06.9 | media movement to highlight vaccine champions. Let's listen. Jay Bot at Hussain Lalani, |
| 1:13.2 | thanks so much for joining me. Great to be with you. Thanks for having us. So today I want to talk |
| 1:18.2 | about the role of trusted influencers in getting COVID vaccine to people and getting patients |
| 1:27.4 | to understand the value of being vaccinated. |
| 1:30.8 | I'll start with you, Hussein. Talk to me a little bit about sort of the role that physicians |
| 1:35.4 | and other clinicians should play in this vaccine rollout and what role they are playing. |
| 1:40.4 | Well, thank you for having this such important conversation. You know, anytime there's something new that's available in society, like the vaccine, for example, |
| 1:49.0 | there's people have questions and they turn to those who they trust. |
| 1:53.0 | And physicians have a really important role to play as trusted messengers when it comes to the vaccine. |
| 1:59.0 | People trust their doctor. They don't just trust any doctor, |
| 2:02.8 | but they trust their personal doctor to provide them with good medical advice that pertains to them. |
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