S1E70 / Country In-Roads: Building Vaccine Confidence in Rural America / Elizabeth Ellis, Dana Friend, Anna Loge, Chris Martin

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

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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"The messaging that we've done in West Virginia is, look, we are leading the country, and that has really given people a sense that we can dispel a lot of negative stereotypes. We can be a world leader in a positive way." -Chris Martin Rural America's vaccine rollout has bucked expectations. A recent survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that four in 10 rural Americans reported getting at least their first dose of vaccine. That’s compared to three in 10 in urban and suburban areas. In this episode, we’re going to hear how healthcare workers are getting the word out about vaccination in three different rural communities. We’ll hear about the challenges to convincing people to get the vaccine, what’s working, and what it’s like to volunteer in a rural vaccination clinic. 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	I think in the very beginning they didn't believe it was real.
0:16.6	Almost everybody in our community I would say knows somebody who's had COVID.
0:21.6	When you look at vaccine hesitancy, a lot of the concerns that people have are fundamentally
0:26.4	issues of trust.
0:39.5	You're listening to Epidemic, the podcast about the science, public health, and social
0:43.3	impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
0:45.6	I'm your host, Dr. Celine Gounder.
1:05.9	Anna Loki lives in the city of Dillon, Montana.
1:08.2	It's a ranching community, so think of wide open valleys, high mountain, rocky mountain mountains.
1:14.7	This is about as classic Montana as you possibly can get.
1:18.5	Anna grew up here.
1:19.9	She left her medical school and even worked as far away as Australia, but she never forgot
1:24.8	her hometown.
1:25.8	I'd always said I wanted to move back to a place like Dillon, and I looked at a lot of
1:29.7	different places and realized there's really no place like Dillon, and so we chose to move
1:33.9	back home and raise our kids where we grew up.
1:36.5	For the last 10 years Anna's been a practicing general internist there.
1:41.0	One is a city of around 5,000 people, but there is a critical care hospital there where
1:45.9	Anna works.
1:47.3	She remembers their first COVID case in March of last year.
1:50.8	I distinctly remember getting the phone call that we had our first positive test within
1:56.3	our patient panel.
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