Coronavirus Front Line: The search for a vaccine - part two

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The medical teams at Bradford investigate the hesitancy over the Covid-19 vaccine. A team of young ambassadors is recruited to help build trust locally and medical teams follow up with those who appear reluctant for a variety of reasons. Abdul Majeed is one of those doubters, even though his uncle, Nawab Ali, has died from Covid and his father, Abdul Saboor, had been gravely ill in intensive care with Covid-19 for two months. Abdul says he is worried by online media reports that the vaccine might be a way of micro-chipping people, and of altering their DNA. He is also suspicious about the long term side effects and mistrusts the official reassurances. He had similar doubts about Covid itself in the early months of the pandemic and did not believe it was real. Dr Wright and the medical teams believe that around 70% of people will have to receive an effective vaccine, to stop the virus circulating in the population: the hope is that this can be achieved by late summer: (Photo: Coronavirus vials. Credit: Getty Images)