"Are You Sure It's Not the Corona Vaccine?" An Ebola Vaccine Trial During Covid-19 in DRC

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ID4564416
AuthorsMyfanwy Vaughan James (0000-0001-7194-1287, Department of Global Health and Development, corresponding author), Shelley Susan Lee (0000-0003-0062-7930, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Year2022
Volume41
Issue5
Pages503-517
Publication date2022-07-04
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2022.2097908
PMID35838298
OpenAlexW4285593627
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited33

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

Business · CONTEST · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Corporate governance · Disease · Ebola vaccine · Ebola virus · Economic growth · Family medicine · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Outbreak · Pandemic · Political science · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Medicine · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research · Virology

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