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Daily: TRUST ISSUE – Why are minorities avoiding the COVID jab?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Why are so many minority patients rejecting the COVID vaccines and what can healthcare do about it? Vaccine hesitancy in minority communities is threatening to turn the pandemic into a specific crisis for marginalised and non-white populations. Ayesha Hazarika talks to Dr Salman Waqar, GP and General Secretary of the British Islamic Medical Association, about a problem with deep roots in the historic marginalisation of BAME people.  “When we tell BAME communities that this vaccine will save your life, many of them won’t take what you say at face value” “I’ve seen elderly vaccination patients crying because it was the first time they’d been out since March 2020” “A lot of the NHS’s non-white workforce has struggled to get its voice heard… We’re still not seeing that workforce represented in NHS management” “The biggest killer in COVID is economic deprivation – and minority communities happen to be more poor” Presented by Ayesha Hazarika. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The UK's vaccine rollout has been heralded as a success in pandemic

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policy, but not everyone is as enthusiastic as we all might wish. Vaccine confidence is routinely up to 20% lower in black and Asian and

1:27.6

minority ethnic communities. Up to 72% of black people are unlikely to take the COVID vaccine with Pakistani and Bangladeshi

1:36.5

individuals the next most hesitant ethnic groups.

1:41.0

And vaccine hesitancy is a matter of life or death. Black people and Pakistani and Bangladeshi men are nearly twice as likely to die from COVID than white people.

1:52.0

The number of B-A- in intensive care is three times that

1:56.7

of their proportion of the population. A new research identifies ethnicity and socioeconomic deprivation as long-covered risk factors.

2:06.5

To talk about this I'm delighted to be joined by Dr. Salma and Wacar, General Secretary of the British Islamic Medical Association and a practicing

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GP.

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