Bridging the vaccine’s trust gap

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🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Can companies require employees to be vaccinated? What community leaders and health officials are doing to sell Black Americans on the coronavirus vaccine. And a second life for Halloween skeletons.

Can your employer require you to get vaccinated? Reporter Jena McGregor breaks it down.

Many Black Americans are not sold on the coronavirus vaccine, citing a long history of medical mistreatment and continuing inequities in modern-day health care as reasons not to trust the medical establishment. Lola Fadulu reports on the efforts to bring people around to the vaccine.

Don’t take down your Halloween decorations just yet. Arts and culture reporter Maura Judkis explains how giant skeletons are being repurposed for Christmas.

What you need to know about the vaccines in development.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:06.0	Hey, it's Ross Helderman from the Post Valley.
0:09.0	How are you?
0:10.0	He there. It's Simon and the Post.
0:12.0	Hey, it's Dave Farron from the Post. Have you got a seat?
0:14.0	This is Post Reports. I'm Martin Powers.
0:18.0	It's Wednesday, December 9th.
0:22.0	Today, weather employers can require vaccinations.
0:28.0	Why there's vaccine hesitancy among black people.
0:31.0	And holiday skeletons take two.
0:37.0	Since the start of the pandemic, I've been covering how employers have transition people to working from home.
0:43.0	And what the expectations are for when many will return.
0:50.0	Jenna McGregor covers workplace issues for the Post.
0:53.0	And she set out to answer this question.
0:55.0	We wanted to know, can your employer require the vaccine of you as an employee?
1:02.0	That's a question that I think so many of my friends and family have been talking about.
1:08.0	Frankly, it's a question that I have been asking myself.
1:10.0	Like, can my employer demand that I have this vaccine?
1:14.0	So what is the answer to that question?
1:17.0	I wish it was simple, but the short answer is it depends.
1:21.0	There are a lot of important caveats and exemptions.
1:26.0	And there's still a lot of unanswered questions.
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