Introducing: Doubt

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🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

A few decades ago, nobody really questioned vaccines. They were viewed as a standard part of staying healthy and safe. Today, the number of people questioning vaccines risks prolonging a pandemic that has already killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. How we got to this moment didn’t start with the rollout of vaccines or in March 2020, or even with the election of Donald Trump. Our confidence in vaccines, often isn't even about vaccines. It’s about trust. And that trust has been eroding for a long time. Doubt, a new series from Bloomberg’s Prognosis podcast, looks at the forces that have been breaking down that trust. We'll trace the rise of vaccine skepticism in America to show how we got here — and where we’re going. Doubt launches on March 23. Subscribe to Prognosis today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0	Have you found yourself confused over the past year?
0:06.2	While face masks are currently required in some parts of China to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
0:12.6	Here in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control is not yet recommending them for the public.
0:17.7	Tonight, the CDC says double masking offers more protection against COVID-19.
0:22.7	If Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I'm not taking it.
0:25.9	I want to encourage everyone to get the vaccine.
0:28.8	It is safe.
0:30.5	Has it sometimes been difficult to figure out the truth?
0:34.5	I have really been struggling with it, trying to figure out if I trust the vaccine.
0:38.9	Once I saw that video, if I didn't know it was an RNA, what else don't I know about it,
0:44.3	you know?
0:44.7	But it was also that in the back of my head, why so fast?
0:49.8	I'm not against vaccines at all.
0:51.5	I think there's a place for certain ones, but I also think some of them are not things
0:56.0	that would give my children.
0:58.3	We are living in uncertain times.
1:01.6	But we do know one thing for sure.
1:04.3	The only way we're going to get out of this pandemic is mass vaccination.
1:10.2	The problem is, right now, many Americans just don't trust vaccines.
1:16.5	What if I take it and something happens to me down the road?
1:19.5	I'm torn between both, you know?
1:22.5	I really am.
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