S1E69 / With Us, For Us — Black Healthcare Workers Speak Out About Vaccine Safety / Jessica Anne Mitchell Aiwuyor, Rhea Boyd, Sandra Lindsay, Tierra Rich

EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine Gounder

KFF Health News and Just Human Productions

Society & Culture, #Eradication, Medicine, #Covid, Science, Life Sciences, #Sarscov2, Documentary, #Coronavirus, #Covid19, Health & Fitness, #Smallpox

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

"This virus does not discriminate. The vaccine is what is going to help to get us out of this crisis and stop the depth and the harm and the pain, which is what we're suffering two to three times more than our white counterparts." -Sandra Lindsay Reports show that Black Americans are less likely to get vaccinated than the general population but Black healthcare workers are taking on the mission to inform and hopefully convince more people of color to get vaccinated. We’ll hear where this outreach has fallen flat in the past and how Black healthcare workers are finding new ways to change hearts and minds about the vaccine. This podcast was created by Just Human Productions. We're powered and distributed by Simplecast. We're supported, in part, by listeners like you. #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #coronavirus

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0:00.0	The vaccine is what is going to help to get us out of this crisis and stop the death and the harm and the pain.
0:17.0	We can talk about misinformation all day, but until we provide information, trustworthiness and access will continue to have these problems.
0:30.0	You're listening to Epidemic, the podcast about the science, public health and social impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
0:45.0	I'm your host, Dr. Celine Gounder.
1:01.0	Sandra Lindsay is the Director of Nursing for Critical Care at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
1:07.0	The hospital where Sandra works is in Queens, one of the New York City boroughs hardest hit by the pandemic.
1:14.0	Every day was just physically and mentally exhausted. Just seeing how hard people were working to save lives, seeing the number of patients that required our services,
1:28.0	it was overwhelming.
1:31.0	Sandra says that the virus was totally unpredictable. People who looked perfectly healthy would get COVID and die. It felt like no one was safe.
1:40.0	Every day, leaving home, I would look in the mirror. Last thing I did before I left home and said, I don't know if I'm making it back home today.
1:50.0	I saw myself in just about any one of those patients in the bed.
1:57.0	Seeing this every day gave Sandra a lot of clarity. She wanted to get vaccinated as soon as possible.
2:04.0	So I was always saying, whenever this vaccine comes to market, I don't care where it's being given out.
2:10.0	I've never gone black Friday shopping or camped out at anywhere to get the first of anything, but I would camp out anywhere the vaccine was being offered.
2:21.0	Turns out, as soon as the vaccine was available, Sandra wouldn't have to wait long.
2:26.0	I got the call that the vaccine was coming to Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
2:32.0	On December 14, 2020, Sandra showed up to work to get her vaccine.
2:37.0	It just so happened that I was the first.
2:40.0	Sandra Lindsay was the first person in the United States to get a COVID vaccine outside of a clinical trial.
2:47.0	It happened so fast. Sandra didn't even get a chance to tell her mom before the media started calling.
2:54.0	She started getting calls from the press for me.
2:58.0	And then she called my brother to say, why are so many people calling here for Sandra?
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