Season 2, episode 26: Shut up and listen
“The holy grail of infectious disease is what happened with smallpox: a disease that once wiped out whole populations is no longer a threat to any of us.”
—Dr. Joyce Sanchez
How can we make space for concerns about the vaccine and grapple with a difficult history? Dr. Joyce Sanchez says that the most important thing she can do when addressing vaccine hesitancy is to shut up and listen. Note: mentions of non-consensual clinical trials and experimentation.
Show notes:
Listen to our first installment of our three-part series on vaccine hesitancy here, which features Dr. Joyce Sanchez, an infectious disease specialist at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and Garnet Henderson, who participated in the Pfizer vaccine trial.
Medical College of Wisconsin COVID resource center and Joyce's page on finding a doctor.
Follow Joyce on Twitter
Listen to Garnet's Podcast ACCESS: A podcast about abortion.
Historical references: J. Marion Sims’ experiments, Tuskegee experiment, Henrietta Lacks
The Conversation: Between Us, About Us, by KFF and W. Kamau Bell
Is Herd Immunity Possible With A Large Vaccine-Hesitant Population? by Ethan Siegal
Melva Thompson-Robinson on Building Black Confidence in the COVID-19 Vaccine, by Keyonna Summers
National Medical Association’s Advisory Statement on the Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines
The Black Coalition Against Covid-19’s A Love Letter to Black America
Quotes from Dr. Salimah H. Meghani’s research on bias in pain treatment from The Washington Post
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