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The Documentary Podcast

Coronavirus: Vaccine regret

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Despite the life saving properties of vaccination against Covid-19, not everyone has chosen to get the jab - even in countries where vaccines are readily available. Karnie Sharp and James Reynolds hear from two Americans who regret their decisions - including the man who almost died and ended up with a double lung transplant after catching the disease. We also hear from flight attendants in Nigeria, Spain and the US about dealing with unruly passengers during a pandemic - especially when asked to wear a mask. Plus a scientist in Uganda explains the vaccine situation there during the country’s second wave.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC World Service with me Karni Sharp and James Reynolds with BBC OS Conversations vaccine regret.

0:11.0

We hear from two Americans who now regret their decision to not get vaccinated.

0:17.0

Plus, the flight attendants around the globe who are witnessing increasingly bad behaviour on their flights.

0:25.0

When you tell a passenger to put on their face masks and try to adhere to the Covid-19 procedure, they feel like they've been punished.

0:32.0

It's really frustrating sometimes when you get passengers really unruly and really disrespectful.

0:42.0

We've seen many headlines about people who've ended up in hospital with Covid after not having had the vaccine and who now regret their decision.

0:53.0

We connected with some of those people to find out more about their experiences and to understand why they refused a potentially life-saving vaccine.

1:03.0

Blake Baguettes is 25 years old and lives in Baltimore in the United States.

1:09.0

Angelique Diaz-Shami in Montana also in the United States is not much older.

1:15.0

She almost left her husband a widower.

1:18.0

My colleague James Reynolds asked her why when vaccines are so readily available in the United States, didn't she get one?

1:26.0

I didn't think I needed it. I just turned 30 in May. I'm fairly healthy. I believed in it for older people or those with autoimmune issues.

1:36.0

But I just didn't think that Covid could wipe me out and affect me so seriously. Me and my husband both just didn't think we needed it at this age.

1:44.0

Let's bring in, like, you were not eligible for the job earlier this year, but you thought that when your eligibility came up, you still wouldn't get it? Why is that?

1:55.0

It never said I wouldn't get it. I was just kind of on the fence about to begin with.

1:59.0

I think the biggest problem with America especially is because of how politicized a shot became, you know, if it's a medical necessity, I don't think it should be a huge debacle or debate.

2:11.0

But I did think it was a little odd that it was so new and they were trying to force it on everyone kind of right off the bat.

2:17.0

And, you know, you had a lot of different stories on both sides saying it was good. It was bad. People were dying or was actually saving people.

2:23.0

So I really wanted to do some due diligence before I'd even taken the risk and gotten it.

2:28.0

But unfortunately, I'd gotten sick about two weeks before my age group was even eligible for the shot to begin with.

2:35.0

Tell us about how you got sick.

2:37.0

I wasn't the wisest decision on my part. I went to a concert and ended up being indoors.

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