Alan Bernstein

And so when it appears... they're seeing a new disease. And these were diseases, certainly when I was growing up, and I suspect, David, when you were growing up, my mother wouldn't let me go swimming in a common swimming pool because of polio. We don't worry about polio anymore today. We shouldn't because children should be vaccinated.

And so when it appears... they're seeing a new disease. And these were diseases, certainly when I was growing up, and I suspect, David, when you were growing up, my mother wouldn't let me go swimming in a common swimming pool because of polio. We don't worry about polio anymore today. We shouldn't because children should be vaccinated.

And so when it appears... they're seeing a new disease. And these were diseases, certainly when I was growing up, and I suspect, David, when you were growing up, my mother wouldn't let me go swimming in a common swimming pool because of polio. We don't worry about polio anymore today. We shouldn't because children should be vaccinated.

And Kennedy's point that they haven't been proven to be safe is really a criticism of the FDA. It's saying that the FDA has not done their job properly. Well, if you look at the FDA, it is the gold standard for approving new drugs and vaccines. It's very stringent, it really does a superb job, and it always outweighs the risks and the benefits of any drug, including vaccines.

And Kennedy's point that they haven't been proven to be safe is really a criticism of the FDA. It's saying that the FDA has not done their job properly. Well, if you look at the FDA, it is the gold standard for approving new drugs and vaccines. It's very stringent, it really does a superb job, and it always outweighs the risks and the benefits of any drug, including vaccines.

And Kennedy's point that they haven't been proven to be safe is really a criticism of the FDA. It's saying that the FDA has not done their job properly. Well, if you look at the FDA, it is the gold standard for approving new drugs and vaccines. It's very stringent, it really does a superb job, and it always outweighs the risks and the benefits of any drug, including vaccines.

And so it's hard to imagine a medicine that has not got some risk associated to it. And the thing about vaccines, which makes it hard to convince somebody that they really are good and they should be taken, as their children should certainly take them, is when you take a pill when you're sick and you get better, you go, oh, that pill may be better.

And so it's hard to imagine a medicine that has not got some risk associated to it. And the thing about vaccines, which makes it hard to convince somebody that they really are good and they should be taken, as their children should certainly take them, is when you take a pill when you're sick and you get better, you go, oh, that pill may be better.

And so it's hard to imagine a medicine that has not got some risk associated to it. And the thing about vaccines, which makes it hard to convince somebody that they really are good and they should be taken, as their children should certainly take them, is when you take a pill when you're sick and you get better, you go, oh, that pill may be better.

When you take a preventative vaccine, you don't get ill. And so there's no miraculous recovery There's the absence of disease. And you could always say, and people do say this, well, I wouldn't have got the disease anyways. So there wasn't the vaccine.

When you take a preventative vaccine, you don't get ill. And so there's no miraculous recovery There's the absence of disease. And you could always say, and people do say this, well, I wouldn't have got the disease anyways. So there wasn't the vaccine.

When you take a preventative vaccine, you don't get ill. And so there's no miraculous recovery There's the absence of disease. And you could always say, and people do say this, well, I wouldn't have got the disease anyways. So there wasn't the vaccine.

So there's a couple of interesting facts about all this. I think if we were talking about this 500 years from now or 300 years from now and we look back and say, it's remarkable that whether you wore a mask or not or took a vaccine or not at the height of this pandemic depended on your political party that you belong to, no one would believe you.

So there's a couple of interesting facts about all this. I think if we were talking about this 500 years from now or 300 years from now and we look back and say, it's remarkable that whether you wore a mask or not or took a vaccine or not at the height of this pandemic depended on your political party that you belong to, no one would believe you.

So there's a couple of interesting facts about all this. I think if we were talking about this 500 years from now or 300 years from now and we look back and say, it's remarkable that whether you wore a mask or not or took a vaccine or not at the height of this pandemic depended on your political party that you belong to, no one would believe you.

You know, it's like in America, and yet it happened. And it happened five years ago. So that's perplexing. Now, you know, I think there's a mea culpa here. I think the scientific community everywhere did not do things perfectly. And I think the mistake we made, we need to make sure we don't do it again. As we talk to the public, here are the facts. here's what we know you should do or not do.

You know, it's like in America, and yet it happened. And it happened five years ago. So that's perplexing. Now, you know, I think there's a mea culpa here. I think the scientific community everywhere did not do things perfectly. And I think the mistake we made, we need to make sure we don't do it again. As we talk to the public, here are the facts. here's what we know you should do or not do.

You know, it's like in America, and yet it happened. And it happened five years ago. So that's perplexing. Now, you know, I think there's a mea culpa here. I think the scientific community everywhere did not do things perfectly. And I think the mistake we made, we need to make sure we don't do it again. As we talk to the public, here are the facts. here's what we know you should do or not do.

As opposed to saying, Here's the facts as we know them today. This might change. And we've never encountered this virus before. We don't know whether lockdowns are good, bad, or indifferent. Here's the consequences of locking down, not locking down, et cetera. We needed some hubris here, some modesty, admission that we don't know everything. Science is based on evidence and facts.

As opposed to saying, Here's the facts as we know them today. This might change. And we've never encountered this virus before. We don't know whether lockdowns are good, bad, or indifferent. Here's the consequences of locking down, not locking down, et cetera. We needed some hubris here, some modesty, admission that we don't know everything. Science is based on evidence and facts.