“Are you sure it’s not the Corona vaccine?” An Ebola vaccine trial during COVID-19 in DRC
The COVID-19 pandemic began as an Ebola epidemic was unfolding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In this article, we examine how COVID-19 influenced experiences of an Ebola vaccine trial and attitudes towards medical research in Goma. First, critical debates about vaccine research became a fo...
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| description | The COVID-19 pandemic began as an Ebola epidemic was unfolding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In this article, we examine how COVID-19 influenced experiences of an Ebola vaccine trial and attitudes towards medical research in Goma. First, critical debates about vaccine research became a forum in which to contest ineffective local governance and global inequality. Second, discussions about new COVID-19 therapeutics reignited critique of Western biomedical colonialism. Third, rumors were made powerful through everyday observations of the unexpected adaption of Ebola trial procedures in the pandemic. This illustrates the difficulties of maintaining participants’ trust, when circumstances dictate protocol alterations mid-trial. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:afda294f-8d46-4426-a60c-de59523203d72022-10-03T14:39:08Z“Are you sure it’s not the Corona vaccine?” An Ebola vaccine trial during COVID-19 in DRCJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:afda294f-8d46-4426-a60c-de59523203d7EnglishSymplectic ElementsTaylor and Francis 2022James, MLees, SThe COVID-19 pandemic began as an Ebola epidemic was unfolding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In this article, we examine how COVID-19 influenced experiences of an Ebola vaccine trial and attitudes towards medical research in Goma. First, critical debates about vaccine research became a forum in which to contest ineffective local governance and global inequality. Second, discussions about new COVID-19 therapeutics reignited critique of Western biomedical colonialism. Third, rumors were made powerful through everyday observations of the unexpected adaption of Ebola trial procedures in the pandemic. This illustrates the difficulties of maintaining participants’ trust, when circumstances dictate protocol alterations mid-trial. |
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| title | “Are you sure it’s not the Corona vaccine?” An Ebola vaccine trial during COVID-19 in DRC |
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