Dazed & Confused: Reporting on Europe’s troubled vaccine rollout | The Listening Post

Summary: Scientists say vaccines are our way out of this pandemic. But with trust in vaccination at an all-time low, the role of the messengers - politicians, pharmaceutical companies and the news media - is as important as ever. Contributors: Kai Kupferschmidt - Contributing correspondent, Science Magazine Hristio Boytchev - Germany correspondent, Research Europe Deborah Fuller - Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine Mun-Keat Looi - International features editor, The BMJ On our radar: The US government has launched a new vaccine campaign - producer Johanna Hoes talks to Richard Gizbert about the White House’s use of Christian broadcasters, sports stars and a country music legend to convince conservative Americans that vaccination is in their best interests. From COVID conspiracism to vaccine hesitancy: France’s other epidemic France is where lab vaccines were invented - so how did the French grow so sceptical, so reluctant to get the COVID jab? Contributors: Lucie Delaporte - Journalist, Médiapart Richard Sénéjoux - Senior reporter, Télérama Antoine Bristielle - Sociologist, Sciences Po & Researcher, Fondation Jean-Jaurès - - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/