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Coronavirus: Reporting Covid

25/12/2021 GMT

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Vaccines, vaccine hesitancy, Delta, Omicron. What’s it like reporting on the pandemic?

Vaccines, vaccine hesitancy, Delta and Omicron – what is it like reporting on the pandemic?

Host Nuala McGovern links up with journalists in Brazil, the United States and Germany to hear how they have been covering the coronavirus pandemic over the past year and the situation in their countries as they see it. How have things changed, and what are their predictions for 2022?

Barbara Carvalho, from Globo News in Brazil, explains why vaccine take-up is high in a country where the national leadership has been sceptical of vaccination.

We are also joined by Kathrin Wesolowski, a reporter and fact-checker in Germany, who warns of the dangers of misinformation around the pandemic. And Apoorva Mandavilli, Global Health and Science Reporter for the New York Times, tells us how her feelings go from despair to optimism.

(Photo: Journalists wearing protective suits at Mugda Medical College Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in April 2021. Credit: Piyas Biswas/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images)

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