Coronavirus Front Line: The search for a vaccine - part two

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🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The medical teams at Bradford investigate the hesitancy over the Covid-19 vaccine. A team of young ambassadors is recruited to help build trust locally and medical teams follow up with those who appear reluctant for a variety of reasons. Abdul Majeed is one of those doubters, even though his uncle, Nawab Ali, has died from Covid and his father, Abdul Saboor, had been gravely ill in intensive care with Covid-19 for two months.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Winifred Robinson, and this is the second of two programs, the coronavirus
0:08.2	frontline, the search for a vaccine. Across the world, the race has been on to create a vaccine. Across the world, the race has been on to create and test a vaccine for COVID-19.
0:18.0	Over 200 are in development, with 30 now in clinical trials being tested on hundreds of thousands of
0:24.8	volunteers. Bradford in the north of England was chosen to be one of the UK's five
0:30.4	clinical trial centers because of the city's proven track record in health
0:34.6	research. Most of what you'll hear in this program has been recorded by Dr John
0:40.6	Wright, an expert on infectious diseases who works at the Bradford Royal Infirmary.
0:46.4	He's coordinating the response to COVID and he's helping lead the work on the vaccine.
0:52.1	People are naturally hesitant about a vaccine that's been developed so quickly,
0:56.0	with new and baffling messenger RNA technology.
1:00.0	But they are also scared of the profusion of crazy stories about government microchips and genetic engineering.
1:07.0	We have been working closely with community groups to listen to people's concerns and address them openly and honestly.
1:14.0	It is clear that there is a loss of trust in government.
1:18.0	But this is also spread to the NHS,
1:20.0	and for the first time in my professional career traditionally trusted voices such as doctors and nurses are now being doubted.
1:29.0	Building a grassroots network of trusted activists to work with communities to dispel myths and lies
1:35.9	is going to be crucial if we are going to protect the people who are most at risk of COVID-19. So do you guys have been having problems with it?
1:45.0	You know like they have seen a team of students is being
1:56.9	trained to act as ambassadors and educators going out into the local community to
2:01.1	talk to people and to try to help rebuild trust. Jordan Lee is one of
2:05.4	those taking part. And so one of the things that we're trying to do is understand
2:08.8	why people don't want to take the vaccine, especially when doctors, nurses, the whole health care force is saying that you should be taking the vaccine
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