Dr Samantha Vanderslott speaks about the reasons for vaccine hesitancy on the Science Weekly podcast episode ‘Covid-19 vaccines: why are some people hesitant?’
Less than a year since Covid-19 was genetically sequenced, vaccinations against it have begun. Despite being a cause for celebration, the vaccines have been met with some public hesitancy. In the first of a two-part exploration into Covid-19 vaccine scepticism, Nicola Davis speaks to Dr Samantha Vanderslott and Dr Caitjan Gainty about why some people are apprehensive, and how much of a problem vaccine scepticism really is. Listen here: https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2020/dec/22/covid-19-vaccines-why-are-some-people-hesitant-part-one-podcast
- Samantha Vanderslott is a social sciences researcher in the Oxford Vaccine Group at the University of Oxford
- Dr Caitjan Gainty is a historian of 20th century medicine and technology at King’s College London
- Read Nicola Davis’s article on how Covid-19 vaccines have been developed so quickly
