Mar 10 Watch 8:14 Leveraging the power of art to achieve ‘community immunity’ By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport The pandemic has highlighted structural inequities within American life, including a disproportionate impact on Black communities and poorer neighborhoods and access to and attitudes toward the vaccine. A new national public health campaign is trying to reach some Black Americans… Continue watching
Mar 03 Watch 8:01 Answering viewers’ questions about COVID-19 vaccines Although the U.S. should have enough vaccines on hand for all adults by the end of May, it may take longer to inoculate enough Americans to provide adequate protection. There are many reasons for that, but key among them, lingering… Continue watching
Mar 02 Watch 6:58 Widespread skepticism and misinformation hamper India’s vaccine rollout By Neha Poonia, Sreoshi Mukherjee As countries across the globe scramble to obtain COVID-19 vaccines, India has access to millions of doses with plans to vaccinate 300 million people by August. But vaccine hesitancy and skepticism are hampering efforts, with the nation reaching just 14… Continue watching
Feb 25 Watch 8:08 Despite being first in line, many health care workers are delaying vaccinations By Amna Nawaz, Mike Fritz, Frank Carlson, Maea Lenei Buhre COVID-19 vaccines were developed with record-breaking speed, and by late last year they were rolled out to frontline health care workers across the country. But despite being first in line many of those workers have decided to delay getting the… Continue watching
Jan 28 Trust in COVID-19 vaccines is vital to control the pandemic. Why are some hesitant? By Laura Santhanam Among the many coronavirus challenges the Biden administration faces, boosting public trust in the vaccine is a problem it must solve to move the U.S. past the pandemic. Continue reading
Dec 27 ‘Believe in science’: EU kicks off COVID-19 vaccine campaign By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press Doctors, nurses and the elderly rolled up their sleeves across the European Union to receive the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine Sunday in a symbolic show of unity and moment of hope for a continent confronting its worst health… Continue reading
Dec 27 Watch 4:38 2020 in Review: vaccine hesitancy, elective surgeries and medical caregiving By PBS NewsHour NewsHour Weekend’s Connie Kargbo joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss some of her most impactful work from 2020: necessary ‘elective’ surgeries being suspended during the pandemic due to hospital overflow; vaccine hesitancy; and how aging caregivers, at risk for COVID, ask… Continue watching
Feb 13 Watch 7:39 How vaccine hesitancy is contributing to deadly measles resurgence By Hari Sreenivasan, Courtney Norris As health care officials around the world struggle to respond to novel coronavirus, another deadly -- and far more contagious -- disease is on the rise, fueled in large part by insufficient immunization. In some countries, military conflict diminishes access… Continue watching