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Prognosis: Misconception

Doubt: Rumor Has It

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1838 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In the series premiere of "Doubt," we meet Jon, a New York City paramedic struggling to decide whether he should get vaccinated. Bloomberg health reporter Kristen V. Brown shows how the pandemic has led many people like him to question vaccines for the first time — and how this distrust threatens to prolong the pandemic.

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I was never a Manhattan guy, but I was downtown before, you know, like a few times.

0:43.8

You couldn't make anything out.

0:44.8

Like it was just, everything was just like destroyed.

0:50.8

I just saw a gigantic hole, rubble everywhere.

0:57.0

On September 11, 2001, Jonathan Demado was working as an emergency medical technician in the Bronx.

1:05.0

By the time he was able to get from his station to the financial district, it was dark. He helped search

1:12.9

for people among the rubble. Lots of smoke, lots of, you know, I guess from the fires that were

1:20.0

all there, lots of smoke. It was definitely something I'll never see again. He was a kid, only 22 years old and on the job for maybe a year.

1:30.3

John is now a lieutenant paramedic with the New York City Fire Department.

1:35.3

He's grown a bit numb to the daily stresses of his line of work.

1:39.3

A lot of these things don't get to me.

1:43.3

Not that I don't, I don't relate, because I do relate.

1:48.6

But if I let everything get to me, I would never be able to do this job.

1:53.5

In two decades on the job, there had never been a day quite as insane as September 11th.

2:00.6

It stood out for him as maybe the most extreme moment

2:04.2

in his career. That was until March 2020. On this Monday night, ramping up the response to the

2:13.8

COVID-19 outbreak. We are seeing the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak shift here to the United States.

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