336 - How You Can Support the US Vaccine Effort
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
With millions of Americans still unvaccinated and dangerous variants continuing to spread, the footrace against the virus continues into the summer months. Want to help? The Made to Save Coalition is a national grassroots effort to ensure communities hardest hit by COVID-19 have access to vaccines and accurate, timely information. Chris Wyant, executive director, and Alice Chen, senior advisor, talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about what's behind this effort—and how you can join. Learn more here: madetosave.org/act
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City. |
| 0:20.0 | Our goal is to bring |
| 0:21.7 | scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews |
| 0:27.1 | with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. |
| 0:32.8 | If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.5 | Today, our topic is getting America vaccinated. I speak to Chris Wyant and Dr. Alice Chen, |
| 0:52.8 | two leaders of the Made to Save Coalition, |
| 0:56.8 | which works with hundreds of local organizations to accelerate vaccination efforts. |
| 1:02.6 | Oh, and you can volunteer to help too at made to save.org forward slash act. |
| 1:09.1 | That's made to save.org forward slash act. |
| 1:11.6 | Let's listen. |
| 1:14.6 | Alice Chen and Chris Wyant, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast to talk about the vaccination challenge facing the United States still. |
| 1:24.6 | Now, I recently had a call from a reporter who said the mass fax sites are closing |
| 1:31.2 | because there's not enough demand. So does this mean that the vaccination effort is over? Dr. Chen, |
| 1:37.9 | what do you think? Absolutely not. There's so much work to be done. We have, you know, 40% of adults are not vaccinated yet. |
| 1:47.6 | There are so many folks who continue to have questions, folks who have challenges with getting |
| 1:53.4 | access to the vaccines, and folks really who are still vulnerable to getting COVID, to being |
| 1:59.2 | in the hospital, to dying of COVID. |
| 2:04.5 | And we have to make sure we keep going until folks are protected. |
| 2:09.4 | What do you make of this question about demand? |
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