Dr. Paul Offit

We're an advisory body, and you're in medicine. You know people can choose not to take your advice, and that's true of the FDA as well. But they authorize then through emergency use authorization this vaccine. But you're always... always waiting for the other shoe to drop, but it did drop.

We're an advisory body, and you're in medicine. You know people can choose not to take your advice, and that's true of the FDA as well. But they authorize then through emergency use authorization this vaccine. But you're always... always waiting for the other shoe to drop, but it did drop.

I mean, with the mRNA vaccines, there was myocarditis, which is inflammation of the heart muscle, primarily in boys 16 to 29 years of age, primarily after the second dose, primarily within four days, but generally it was transient and self-resolving. So it really wasn't that bad. That was a very small price to pay, I think, for that vaccine.

I mean, with the mRNA vaccines, there was myocarditis, which is inflammation of the heart muscle, primarily in boys 16 to 29 years of age, primarily after the second dose, primarily within four days, but generally it was transient and self-resolving. So it really wasn't that bad. That was a very small price to pay, I think, for that vaccine.

I mean, with the mRNA vaccines, there was myocarditis, which is inflammation of the heart muscle, primarily in boys 16 to 29 years of age, primarily after the second dose, primarily within four days, but generally it was transient and self-resolving. So it really wasn't that bad. That was a very small price to pay, I think, for that vaccine.

But you had J&J's vaccine, which we reviewed in February of 2021, the adenovirus vectored vaccine. And That was, again, about a 30,000 person study. But so you saw 15,000 people got that vaccine. Then millions of people got it. And it was found to be a cause of clotting, including severe clotting, including clotting in the brain that ultimately drove that vaccine off the market by March of 2023.

But you had J&J's vaccine, which we reviewed in February of 2021, the adenovirus vectored vaccine. And That was, again, about a 30,000 person study. But so you saw 15,000 people got that vaccine. Then millions of people got it. And it was found to be a cause of clotting, including severe clotting, including clotting in the brain that ultimately drove that vaccine off the market by March of 2023.

But you had J&J's vaccine, which we reviewed in February of 2021, the adenovirus vectored vaccine. And That was, again, about a 30,000 person study. But so you saw 15,000 people got that vaccine. Then millions of people got it. And it was found to be a cause of clotting, including severe clotting, including clotting in the brain that ultimately drove that vaccine off the market by March of 2023.

And everybody looks at that story and they say, how did you not know that? How did you recommend something like that, which now has caused deaths in some people? How could you not know that?

And everybody looks at that story and they say, how did you not know that? How did you recommend something like that, which now has caused deaths in some people? How could you not know that?

And everybody looks at that story and they say, how did you not know that? How did you recommend something like that, which now has caused deaths in some people? How could you not know that?

And people then lose trust, which is in part sort of why I wrote this book, because I just think people have to have realistic expectations of the fact that you're going to learn as you go, which everybody agrees with, except when it comes to any personal experience they've had.

And people then lose trust, which is in part sort of why I wrote this book, because I just think people have to have realistic expectations of the fact that you're going to learn as you go, which everybody agrees with, except when it comes to any personal experience they've had.

And people then lose trust, which is in part sort of why I wrote this book, because I just think people have to have realistic expectations of the fact that you're going to learn as you go, which everybody agrees with, except when it comes to any personal experience they've had.

Yes, I'm really impressed by the committee. I actually... I know COVID has become a difficult discussion for people, but I think that Operation Warp Speed, which is to say an $11 billion outlay to bet on six horses, six vaccines to win one race, and basically taking the risk out of pharmaceutical companies, right?

Yes, I'm really impressed by the committee. I actually... I know COVID has become a difficult discussion for people, but I think that Operation Warp Speed, which is to say an $11 billion outlay to bet on six horses, six vaccines to win one race, and basically taking the risk out of pharmaceutical companies, right?

Yes, I'm really impressed by the committee. I actually... I know COVID has become a difficult discussion for people, but I think that Operation Warp Speed, which is to say an $11 billion outlay to bet on six horses, six vaccines to win one race, and basically taking the risk out of pharmaceutical companies, right?

Government's going to pay for your phase one trials phase, two trials phase, three trials. They're going to pay to build the building. They'll pay to you to make the vaccine. And if the vaccine doesn't work, you can throw it all away, and this will be no financial risk to you. I think that was... the greatest scientific or medical accomplishment in my lifetime.

Government's going to pay for your phase one trials phase, two trials phase, three trials. They're going to pay to build the building. They'll pay to you to make the vaccine. And if the vaccine doesn't work, you can throw it all away, and this will be no financial risk to you. I think that was... the greatest scientific or medical accomplishment in my lifetime.

Government's going to pay for your phase one trials phase, two trials phase, three trials. They're going to pay to build the building. They'll pay to you to make the vaccine. And if the vaccine doesn't work, you can throw it all away, and this will be no financial risk to you. I think that was... the greatest scientific or medical accomplishment in my lifetime.