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"clinical center research" Discussed on KZSC 88.1 FM Santa Cruz

"She's professor of anthropology, risk and decision science at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She says that people have four fundamental questions when it comes to getting shot. Found was four domains, confidence in the importance and the effectiveness in the safety and is a compatible with my it least. Religious or otherwise. Interestingly, you really look globally the data on comparing it to actual vaccine uptake perception of the importance of the vaccine is actually the strongest predictor of vaccine acceptance. Dr Larson says the populations that are most vulnerable to covet exposure or serious outcomes for the disease, including native latter necks and black people, and people with low incomes are also the most likely to experience vaccine hesitancy. Most widely held concern across the population is about the safety of this shot and its potential side effects thing. Same time. If people believe in the importance of the vaccine, they're much more willing to tolerate a bit of risk. Dr Reid Tucks in is a member of the Clinical Center Research board at the National Institutes of Health and the founder of the Black Coalition against Cove. It It's a group of community organizations and health care professionals who came to build trust for the vaccine among black and brown communities and inform people about the risks of catching and spreading cove in He said that the disease of distrust can be deadly. We have to realize that there is a larger context that has to be addressed distrust of health care researchers distrust of the system of clinical care and distrust of the health policy movement. Ah, lot of that was because of the Tuskegee syphilis study of which are everyone, I'm sure is well aware of the horrors of that experience, but those remained prominent and frustrated our ability To respond from a public health perspective to the HIV AIDS crisis in the black community is Number one. We must have grassroots community engagement. If we're going to fight these kinds of challenges, Government cannot do it alone at the federal, state or local level. It must be community based organizations, people from the community who can translate and transmit Science messages in their own vernacular in ways that can reach and cut cut through. Secondly, you must have trusted science and clinical care voices. There is a huge desire for the black community to hear from trusted voices trusted black positions, and scientists and funding is a very big part of it. Unfortunately, what we see too often is major white philanthropies and other organizations with which Government already has a pre existing funding mechanism. They get the dollars and what happens is that the African American community has been taxed with doing the work we do, but having to do it with very little resource is and people sort of taking those community based organizations for granted. Jackson says organizing efforts have begun to make headway and raising people's confidence in the vaccines. But, he says once people do decide to get vaccinated. Systemic inequality in the health care system leaves low income and communities of color, waiting the longest for their shot. Our polling tells us that we've gone from a couple of months ago. Where was 60%? No, I will not take the vaccine to now. Our polling is telling the status down to 30%. The 70% are saying I need more information and I'm ready to go. Black folks are not in the back teen hesitant issue the way that we thought we would be anymore. So it is not an excuse. But it is hard to get black folks to come take the vaccine, and this is a referendum on America's competence to execute on a very fundamental problem. I'm Jr Summers for KPFK. And you're listening to the evening news on K p F a Berkeley or KPFK in Los Angeles, KFC F Fresno Online at kpfk dot or G'kar thistles CAT Brooks I'm an actor,.