365 - The Politicization of COVID-19 Vaccines
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Research shows that conservatives are significantly less likely to get a COVID vaccine than liberals. Timothy Callaghan of Texas A&M's school of public health tells Stephanie Desmon about the impact this has right now, given the Delta variant, and the implications for the future in a country where politics and science are at odds in many circles. What are the best strategies to decouple partisanship from sound science and why is it so crucial to our health?
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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 jh.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.8 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to political scientist Timothy Callahan of the Texas A&M School of Public Health. |
| 0:54.0 | They discuss the politics of vaccine |
| 0:56.0 | hesitancy and how to overcome a blue state, red state divide with COVID-19 vaccines. |
| 1:02.7 | Let's listen. Timothy Callahan, thanks so much for joining me. Happy to be here. So today I want to |
| 1:10.0 | talk to you. |
| 1:11.1 | You have sort of a unique position, right? |
| 1:13.1 | So you have a PhD in political science. |
| 1:15.8 | You work in health policy. |
| 1:18.7 | So you're probably the perfect person to ask. |
| 1:21.2 | Tell me about the role of politics in vaccine hesitancy that we're seeing in the United States? |
| 1:29.3 | Yeah, well, it's a really important issue for us to be considering right now, and it's an issue |
| 1:33.7 | of growing concern. Historically, we have found an association between ideology and vaccine |
| 1:39.5 | uptake, but before COVID-19, it was a pretty small association. What we're starting to see now, though, is wide disparities in vaccine uptake |
| 1:46.7 | between conservative members of the American public and liberal members of the American |
| 1:50.1 | public. |
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