Routine Checkup: Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy In Their Own Voices w/ Evy Kwong

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4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Evy is an editor at the Toronto Star. She and her colleagues put together a series of videos called ‘In Their Own Voices’ where people talk about why they got the vaccine in their languages in order to combat vaccine hesitancy in racialized and immigrant communities. This week we discuss the broader shifts in journalism towards using storytelling as an effective tool to cultivate change, and what inspired In ‘Their Own Voices’.

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0:37.3	And we're not yet
0:39.3	We go to please get all in our hands
0:42.3	We go to please get all in our hands
0:46.3	We go to please get all in our heads
0:49.3	We want things there
0:52.3	And we're not yet We go to place and get all in our heads I feel like a portion today is today is going to revolve the conversation today is going to revolve around this notion of vaccine hesitancy, which is a term that is quite new, I think,
1:16.9	you know, like for us in the in the, in the like everyday vernacular of life.
1:21.5	Yeah.
1:22.0	Due to COVID-19.
1:24.3	And so, uh, actually wasn't wasn't that long ago where we had a conversation on the podcast with a doctor about the difference between vaccine hesitancy and like anti-vaccination, which are two very different things.
1:39.7	And so I came out of that, I came out of that conversation with like kind of with this mantra,
1:45.4	like repeating to myself, like vaccine hesitancy is important.
1:48.5	Like we should all have some degree of vaccine hesitancy.
1:52.8	And then Evie, I came across the campaign here in their own voices.
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