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    We Need YOU! Especially if you are from an Asian background.

    Link to join a Covid trial - Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine research studies - NHS - NHS

    (Read through to make sure you understand and then follow the links)


    News Story -

    NHS needs thousands of British Asians to join Covid-19 vaccine trials | World news | The Guardian


    The NHS is launching a fresh attempt to recruit tens of thousands of volunteers from British Asian communities to its coronavirus vaccine trials following a “disappointing” uptake in the first phase.

    The government’s vaccines taskforce announced on Monday that more than 112,000 people had signed up for trials which could begin as soon as next month.


    However, only 3% of the volunteers were from British Asian backgrounds, said Dr Dinesh Saralaya, one of the directors of the recruitment programme, describing the low uptake as “very worrying”.

    Saralaya, a consultant respiratory physician, said the researchers needed to do more to reach communities who may not speak English as a first language or watch mainstream television news and may be unaware of the vaccine trials.

    “It’s very important that we dispel the myths in the Asian community that vaccines are going to be harmful,” said Saralaya, who runs a National Institute for Health Research patient recruitment centre in Bradford.

    “It’s perfectly safe. They are very, very closely monitored and there are very strict protocols. The standard of care is in fact better than what you would receive outside of a trial [and] the side effects are very, very minimal.”

    A targeted recruitment programme broadcast in Urdu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali and Polish is to be launched, while respected community leaders will be used to spread to message to harder-to-reach neighbourhoods.
    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

    #2
    You would have thought they had sussed this by now. - how to communicate effectively with minorities about health matters.
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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      #3
      Originally posted by vetran View Post
      You would have thought they had sussed this by now. - how to communicate effectively with minorities about health matters.
      Get Nigel Farage to talk loudly and slowly at them?

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        #4
        Originally posted by vetran View Post
        You would have thought they had sussed this by now. - how to communicate effectively with minorities about health matters.
        What this government? Public Health England? NHS England? NHS Trusts? Care Homes?

        Nah they just prefer killing of their ethnic minority healthcare and social care staff off by telling them they didn't need PPE or a plastic apron is acceptable PPE....
        "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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          #5
          Not very inclusive is it?

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            #6
            Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
            Not very inclusive is it?

            You can sign up if you live in the UK.

            They just currently don't have enough Asian volunteers.
            "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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              #7
              This is going to be anti-vaxx squared

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                #8
                Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
                What this government? Public Health England? NHS England? NHS Trusts? Care Homes?

                Nah they just prefer killing of their ethnic minority healthcare and social care staff off by telling them they didn't need PPE or a plastic apron is acceptable PPE....
                So they gathered the white care works and gave them PPE but not the non-whites? Why havent I heard of this on the news?

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                  #9
                  Is this the government's fault, or is it like in the tribal areas of Afghanistan where they kill health workers aiming to eliminate polio because actually it's a plot to kill all their children?
                  Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
                    Is this the government's fault, or is it like in the tribal areas of Afghanistan where they kill health workers aiming to eliminate polio because actually it's a plot to kill all their children?
                    It’s the Govt’s fault not to educate tribal areas before sending poor health workers (without armed escort)

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