well, a report last week from global health correspondent tulip mazumdar set out to examine the problemf disinformation around the vaccine. i spoke to trainee solicitor oscar, who's taking part in vaccine trials at imperial college london, and production designer nina. i would like to be vaccinated because i think it's one of the only ways out of this situation. i have quite mixed feelings. i'm not sure how much i trust the vaccine yet, because it happened so quickly. that report went on to address the challenge of counteracting misinformation. chris westhead wasn't satisfied, though, and recorded this video for us to explain why. in recent news coverage canvassing views from the public about the take—up of the covid vaccines, i was alarmed at the equal weight given to the opinions of two people interviewed, one in positive agreement to receiving the vaccine and the other person who was not convinced it was safe due to the vaccine trials happening too quickly. following the bbc over—publicising the discredited concern about the nmr vaccine 20 years ago, will viewers continue to hear neg

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tulip mazumdar, bbc news.e, and a trade deal with the eu still hasn't been finalised. and now the food and drink industry is warning that households could face higher bills for food regardless of whether a deal is struck. cabinet ministers are calling on businesses to step up their preparations, while some experts warn that there could still be disruption to supplies even with a trade deal. 0ur global trade correspondent dharshini david reports on the anxiety in the business world. it's milking time, but even the uk's biggest dairy cooperative has to top up from the eu to satisfy our appetite. without a trade deal extra import taxes or tariffs could add 40p to a pack of imported butter from next year. buying more british isn't an option. for us it would take many hundreds of millions of pounds of more investment and years to become fully self—sufficient and therefore if we have to pay tariffs on the way in and the product flow is not as good as it is today, then regrettably, because we are a low margin busines

tulip mazumdar, bbc news. the virus reversed. he wasn't cured by hiv drugs but by a stem—cell treatment he received for cancer. today, on world aids day, he's been speaking thomas magill with a message of hope for others. this is adam castillejo, the so—called london patient and only the second person in the world to be cured from hiv. i feel kind of humbled, very grateful for it. i sometimes feel like i won the lottery. diagnosed in 2003, adam was just 23 and says the news was devastating. i felt like i was going to die. because i couldn't tell people. i couldn't tell my closest friends. i couldn't tell people, because if i tell someone, i will be kind of punished. another blow came in 2011, when adam was diagnosed with cancer. and it was his treatment for that which helped kick—start his recovery from hiv. doctors in london carried out a stem cell transplant, but it came with risks. it was an 80% to 90% chance of dying. so the doctor called me — dr ian gabriel — and said to me, "adam, i've got some good news

our global health reporter tulip mazumdar reports.n lead to confusion, distrust, and in some cases, protests against proven public health advice like wearing masks. now, with vaccines well on the way, there is a fresh push to celebrate —— separate fact from fiction. i spoke to trainee solicitor 0scar who is taking part in vaccine trials at imperial couege in vaccine trials at imperial college london and production designer, nina. i would like college london and production designer, nina. iwould like to college london and production designer, nina. i would like to be vaccinated because i think it is one of the only ways out of this situation. i have mixed feelings. i'm not sure how much i trust the vaccine yet, because it has happened so vaccine yet, because it has happened so quickly. preliminary research suggests exposure to some of the most widely circulated misinformation can impact people's intention to be vaccinated against infodemic. 4000 people took part in the study in the uk —— against covid—19. before they were shown the ina

our global health correspondent, tulip mazumdar, has been looking at this.udes towards a covid—19 vaccine are under way. preliminary data from 17 countries suggest that people in ethiopia, india, and saudi arabia feel the most confident about taking one, with at least 85% saying they would be immunised. there was more scepticism in countries including germany, france, the us, and also in the drc, where fewer than 50% of people said they would take a vaccine. gary o'donoghue is in washington, dc. i know the bbc has been trying to find out what was discussed at that meeting between the white house chief of staff and the head of the fda. how are we getting on? no word from the white house or the fda on what was said during that meeting. but i think we can pretty much guess at its contents, can't we? because the white house and donald trump have been really unhappy with the regulatory bodies like the fda and with pfizer about the speed at which this is going. he made promises about the vaccine and accused pfizer of delaying the news of the vaccine until after th

the bbc‘s global health correspondent tulip mazumdar reports.it can lead to confusion, distrust and, in some cases, protests against proven public health advice. now with vaccines well on the way, there is a fresh push to separate fact from fiction. i spoke to trainee solicitor oscar, who is taking part in vaccine trials at imperial college london, and production designer nina, who lives with her 82—year—old grandmother about new covid vaccines. making sense of all of the different scientific opinion and the results that are recently coming out is incredibly difficult. i think it's quite convoluted at the moment. i think there are quite a lot of opinions flying around, over twitter, instagram, tiktok. i would like to be vaccinated because i think it's one of the only ways out of this situation. i have mixed feelings. i'm not sure how much i trust the vaccine yet because it has happened so quickly. we feel that many people actually currently they are making a decision not based on good information but based on some information they have seen on s

the bbc‘s global health correspondent tulip mazumdar reports.d to confusion, distrust and, in some cases, protests against proven public health advice. now with vaccines well on the way, there is a fresh push to separate fact from fiction. i spoke to trainee solicitor 0scar, who is taking part in vaccine trials at imperial college london and production designer nina, who lives with her 82—year—old grandmother, about new covid vaccines. making sense of all of the different scientific opinion and the results that are recently coming out is incredibly difficult. i think it's quite convoluted at the moment. i think there are quite a lot of opinions flying around, over twitter, instagram, tiktok. i would like to be vaccinated because i think it's one of the only ways out of this situation. i have mixed feelings. i'm not sure how much i trust the vaccine yet because it has happened so quickly. we feel that many people actually currently they are making a decision not based on good information but based on some information they have seen on social medi

we saw in one of those clips of tulip mazumdar voxpopping members of the public expressing uncertaintyadd to the noise and don't amplify some of the disinformation. now, we do know that there's been this huge growth in anti—vaxxer conspiracy theories spread online, mainly through social media. how much of an impact are they having on how you think about coverage of the vaccines? we make sure that what we say is based on the evidence, based on what scientists are telling us and based on the data. a really important number to come back to is that one in 1,000 people have already died in the uk since the start of this pandemic after being infected with coronavirus. no vaccine is risk—free, and we need to be honest about that, but we need to help the audience to understand those risks and set them against the dangers of coronavirus. but there is concern from scientists that the misinformation and the fake news which is being shared on social media may put people off from having a vaccine which could potentially save their lives, so we do feel that we've got a really important role to play