Dr. Jen Gunter

And that's just one area.

Are we going to have flu vaccines?

Are we going to have...

Are we going to have COVID boosters?

As someone who's got a kid who's had major surgery for their congenital heart disease, I'm really concerned about that.

I see a lot of patients who are immunosuppressed.

Are we going to have these panels?

And this is, I think, one of the things that actually really keeps me up at night.

Are we going to have the faux legitimacy of these panels where maybe there's like one or two reasonable people on the panel?

Like, you know, we saw with the panel they just had on SSRIs and pregnancy.

Are they going to say, well, SSRIs cause miscarriage?

I mean, they don't.

But are they going to say that?

Well, so then are pharmacists going to be afraid to fill prescriptions for SSRIs for women of reproductive age in states where abortion is illegal?

Maybe.

Are people going to be afraid to prescribe it?

That could happen.

So now what's going to happen?

We're going to have all these people with untreated depression and all the effects of that, which we know is significant.

If we have, you know, there used to be a process, they'd maybe convene a panel, but then they'd have an appropriate scientific review.