‘Taking part in COVID research: David’s story’ - video transcript

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  • Video description - David, a former researcher, speaks about why he took part in vital COVID vaccine research during the pandemic.

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0:00 - Title frame

[Top of frame - NIHR logo and NHS logo. Be Part of Research logo animated.]

0:05 - Audio and visual

[Top of frame - Be Part of Research logo. David talking and video shown of a door with a sign ‘I’m in the garden!’ then David in his shed]

My name is David Baron. For the large majority of my working life I was actually involved with clinical research. However what I've never ever done is actually been a volunteer at the sharp end of clinical research. 

[David is sat in his living room talking to camera]

Basically, when the COVID pandemic hit us, it was fairly evident to me that the way forward in the treatment and prevention of this ghastly disease was going to be vaccines. 

There was work going to be going on with the COVID booster vaccine down in Portsmouth so I contacted them and said "yes please, I would like to volunteer." The whole thing went from there. 

[Video footage showing nurses in a COVID clinic taking measurements and giving vaccines]

I went down there and, for my first visit, I had to answer loads of questions about my lifestyle and they took blood samples from me to make sure that I was healthy, and also a full medical examination. And they then gave me whatever vaccine it was that had been allocated to me. 

[David is talking to camera]

Without clinical research in humans there is no way that anybody can really develop new medicines, be it vaccines or synthetic drugs or new treatments or even new medical equipment to help deal with medical conditions. 

[Video footage showing nurses in a COVID clinic]

Certainly society as a whole has definitely benefited because the vaccines burnt an awful lot of deaths and I suspect an awful lot of disruption to people's lives. 

[David is talking to camera then footage of him on his lawnmower shown]

It's been quite beneficial to my mental health, if you like, to be able to feel that I've made some minuscule contribution to the whole vaccine development programme. 

1:45 - Closing frame

[Closing slide including:

Life changing research starts with people like you. Sign up to be part of research today and help improve the care and treatment of tomorrow. Visit bepartofresearch.uk for more information.

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