Doubt: Hope
Prognosis: Misconception
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4.1 ā¢ 838 Ratings
šļø 20 April 2021
ā±ļø 52 minutes
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Summary
InĀ our final episode of the season, we look at where vaccine hesitancy stands in America today. More Americans are getting vaccinated every day, but theĀ numbers of skepticsĀ are still high enough to seriously threaten efforts to achieve widespread immunity and end the pandemic.Ā The answer toĀ solving that problem, though, may be an attitude adjustment from public health.
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| 0:30.9 | Okay, so what is the actual address to this website? Okay, so Vairs. |
| 0:39.3 | V-A-E-R-S-H-S.gov. |
| 0:43.8 | Let me slack it to you. |
| 0:47.2 | My producer Tofer and I are checking out a website known as VERS. |
| 0:52.5 | That acronym stands for Vaccine Adverse reporting system. It's a federal database |
| 0:58.4 | where anyone can report potential side effects they've experienced after getting vaccinated. |
| 1:04.1 | It's basically intended to be an early warning system for possible problems with vaccines. |
| 1:09.9 | The data is totally public. |
| 1:12.7 | The first thing it says there's been 44,856 adverse events related to the COVID-19 vaccine. |
| 1:20.6 | That doesn't sound so bad for millions upon millions of people being vaccinated every day. |
| 1:29.7 | In VERS, you can read all of the details of injuries people say happened after getting vaccinated. |
| 1:36.6 | But it's important to know that not every health issue that comes up after getting a vaccine |
| 1:41.9 | is necessarily caused by a vaccine. |
| 1:46.0 | Broncospasm with coughing, tongue itching. |
| 1:49.4 | Tongue itching. |
| 1:51.2 | I don't know if I've ever had an itchy tongue. |
| 1:53.9 | It's not just injuries you can look up. |
| 1:56.7 | How many deaths were there? |
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