Shot in the arm: Professor HEIDI LARSON on the anti-vaxxer movement

The Bunker

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🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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A vaccine is seen as the primary route out of the COVID19 crisis, but only half of Brits surveyed by Kings College London say they would be likely to get one. Professor HEIDI LARSON, director of The Vaccine Confidence Project, tells Ros Taylor the reasons people give for not wanting a vaccine, and how we can build public trust in health interventions. “If Facebook closed their doors tomorrow, these sentiments would not go away” “We need a more diverse group of entities to embrace vaccines” “I’m constantly struck at how little people really understand vaccines” Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:16.2	Only half of Britain surveyed by Kings College London say they definitely or be very likely
1:21.0	to get a vaccine. And with me to talk about why so many of us are worried about it is Professor Heidi Larson,
1:27.6	an anthropologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Director of the
1:32.0	Vaccine Confidence Project.
1:34.4	She specializes in how to build public trust in health interventions.
1:38.2	Heidi, welcome to the bunker.
1:39.8	Good morning.
1:40.8	Let's start with the thinking of anti-Baxers. You might be okay with the idea of a vaccine but deeply
1:46.8	wary of having it yourself. So you see the benefits to society but you just don't want to take what you perceive as that
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