Should Vaccination Be A Choice?
Deep Background with Noah Feldman
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Dr. Heidi Larson, founding director of the Vaccine Confidence Project, discusses the complicated relationship between vaccine hesitancy, choice, and democracy. Dr. Larson is the author of the recent book, “Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start and Why They Don't Go Away.”
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:08.7 | It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here? |
| 0:13.8 | Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn. |
| 0:17.6 | In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics, the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history. So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore. Listen on theHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:42.2 | From Pushkin Industries, this is Deep Background, the show where we explore the stories behind the stories in the news. |
| 0:49.4 | I'm Noah Feldman. We've been talking a lot in the last year about the possibilities of herd immunity or community |
| 0:57.1 | immunity. |
| 0:58.2 | But it's now overwhelmingly clear that the U.S. population is not going to hit in the foreseeable |
| 1:03.3 | future a rate that would satisfy the herd immunity standard. |
| 1:07.5 | And the main reason for that is not distribution of vaccines, but what is called, |
| 1:12.3 | slightly as a euphemism, vaccine hesitancy. Some studies have shown that as many as one in five |
| 1:18.8 | Americans say they wouldn't want to take a coronavirus vaccine, and there are some indications |
| 1:23.8 | from other studies that those numbers are in fact rising rather than declining. |
| 1:30.5 | Public health officials and governments, and indeed all of us, therefore need to think about |
| 1:35.3 | ways to understand and increase public acceptance of the vaccine, provided they believe, |
| 1:41.0 | as I do, that the vaccine is an important tool in helping us get beyond this pandemic. |
| 1:46.9 | Today's guest is one of the world's leading researchers on precisely the question of why people hesitate to take vaccines, |
| 1:54.4 | why they don't want to take vaccines, and what might be done about it. |
| 1:58.6 | Dr. Heidi Larson is an anthropologist. |
| 2:01.3 | She's the founding director of the Vaccine Confidence Project, |
| 2:04.9 | an interdisciplinary research group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. |
| 2:10.2 | She also headed the Global Immunization Communication Program at UNICEF, |
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