How to talk about the COVID vaccine with people who are hesitant

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🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Infectious disease specialist Dr. Jasmine Marcelin shares how she has conversations about the COVID-19 vaccine with people who have doubts about getting vaccinated. (A version of this episode originally aired on NPR's Short Wave.)

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0:00.0	Hey there, life-kit listeners.
0:01.6	We have a special episode for you from our friends at Shortwave.
0:05.0	It's about talking with those who are still vaccine hesitant.
0:07.9	It's a great conversation with an infectious disease specialist
0:10.6	who has these kinds of talks all the time.
0:13.4	Here's the episode.
0:15.7	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:20.4	Hi, Shortwaveers.
0:21.7	We are talking to this amazing physician on the front lines,
0:25.6	Dr. Jasmine Marcellan, who is an infectious disease specialist
0:29.6	in Omaha, Nebraska, and is treating serious cases of COVID.
0:34.6	This time last year, she was feeling overwhelmed and exhausted.
0:39.2	Particularly, you know, for me as a black woman physician,
0:44.7	during this time, it is compounded by a feeling of inadequacy
0:52.9	of being able to protect my community.
0:56.6	Which for her meant shifting what it meant to be on the front lines,
1:01.4	getting out of the hospital and helping more people get vaccinated.
1:06.0	In the last year, she's had countless conversations
1:08.7	with Nebraska's about the vaccine.
1:11.2	How does it work?
1:12.4	And why get it now?
1:14.5	And these conversations have really kept her going.
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