Vaccine Hesitancy and Ethnicity; The Joy of catnip; Lake Heatwaves

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🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Reports this week talk of some BAME ethnic minorities being significantly less likely to take a covid vaccine if offered. Vittal Katikireddi and Tolullah Oni both sit on the SAGE ethnicity subgroup, and they discuss with Alex Lathbridge where the figures come from and quite what they might mean. Some of these same groups have suffered some of the worst outcomes from infection. Addressing any underlying problems that bely the figures will take a nuanced approach. Researchers in Japan and Liverpool have been investigating cat's prediliction for the herbs Catnip and Silver Vine. It turns out that there may well be a deep evolutionary reason they have evolved to love rubbing it in their fur so much: a key ingredient is a good mosquito repellent. As Professors Masao Miyazaki and Jane Hurst describe. It could help keep the mozzies away but you might end up being tailed by cats. And researcher Iestyn Woolway of the European Space Agency Climate Group, at Didcot UK, describes his work modelling the world's lakes' reaction to a warming climate over coming decades. It's not very comforting, with increased duration and intensity of what he calls "Lake Heatwaves". Presented by Alex Lathbridge Produced by Alex Mansfield Made in associataion with the Open University. Note: This podcast has been edited since the original broadcast to prevent any possible inference that the Tuskegee syphilis study involved the deliberate infection of subjects. In the Tuskegee study, African American patients who were already infected with syphilis had diagnosis and treatment deliberately withheld from them in order to observe the progression of the lethal disease over several decades (even after a perfectly simple treatment - penicillin - became available).

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0:40.3	Hello there this is the podcast of Inside Science from BBC Radio 4 first
0:45.7	broadcast on the 21st of January 2021. I'm Alex Stathbridge. Today we're
0:51.5	finding out how cats love of catnip might help protect them and how the lakes of the
0:55.8	world might fare in the coming decades as temperatures rise.
1:00.3	This week a sage subgroup that focuses on COVID-19 risks and impacts for minority ethnic groups
1:06.0	published a paper discussing vaccine hesitancy. Survey data shows that almost 72% of black or black British people and 42% of Pakistani or Bangladeshi
1:16.1	people would be unlikely or very unlikely to take the COVID vaccine.
1:21.6	Compared to the overall average of A2% who reckon that they would take it if offered, these numbers need our attention. I'm joined by two members of the sage subgroup, Dr. Toloulouoni, public health physician scientist, urban
1:35.1	epidemiologist and a clinical senior research fellow with the University of
1:39.0	Cambridge's Global Public Health Research Program and Vital Katakaretti Professor of Public Health Research Program and Vital Kattakoretti, professor of public health at the University of Glasgow.
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