How do you solve a problem like vaccine hesitancy

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🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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On today's episode, the PR campaign the government is waging on vaccine hesitancy and equitable access for vaccine. Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels talks to Dr. Ebony Hilton and POLITICO healthcare reporter Adam Cancryn about whose job is it to combat hesitancy, and how the Biden administration is stacking up. Eugene Daniels is a co-author of POLITICO Playbook.Dr. Ebony Hilton is associate professor of anesthesiology at UVA and a critical care physician.Adam Cancryn is a healthcare reporter at POLITICO.Annie Rees is a producer for POLITICO audio.Jenny Ament is senior producer for POLITICO audio.Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And we had been praying for this day for so long, so long time coming.
0:06.0	It is V-Day.
0:07.0	It is V-Day for sure.
0:12.0	I was the first person at UVA to actually be vaccinated on December 15th.
0:17.0	And so I started to actually video diary, video blog, my experience.
0:23.0	The first COVID vaccine for UVA, you ready?
0:25.0	All right.
0:27.0	Dr. Ebney Hilton was the first person to get vaccinated at her job.
0:32.0	She's a physician at the University of Virginia.
0:35.0	I think what needs to happen is when we transition into Phase 1-B and Phase 1-C and Phase 2,
0:43.0	that the spotlight needs to go away from the physicians and nurses and people that can get access now into those other persons.
0:52.0	All right.
0:53.0	We need to highlight someone who's working in a grocery store.
0:56.0	We need to highlight someone working in one of these farming communities.
1:00.0	Highlight those people because they are the trusted community persons where they live.
1:06.0	The hospital took a video to show her vaccination in real time,
1:10.0	in part to show people who have reservations about getting it themselves that, hey, it's safe.
1:16.0	Congratulations.
1:17.0	All right.
1:19.0	I'm Eugene Daniels and this is Nerdcast.
1:26.0	The difficulty with vaccines, vaccine hesitancy, especially now, is that it is in large part a sales job.
1:34.0	I'm here with Dr. Hilton and political health care reporter Adam Kinkren.
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