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Dr. Paul Offit

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1121 total appearances

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The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

No. And this is Marjorie Taylor Greene's most recent thing. I mean, just in the last couple of days, she said that we need to look into this. There's just this dramatic rise in cancers and it's being caused by this mRNA vaccine because, you know, we're compelled by coincidence. I mean, the mRNA vaccines are designed to prevent the COVID vaccines.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

There's now an mRNA vaccine against RSV, but they're designed to prevent specific diseases, not everything else that happens in life. And that's what you're up against. Got a vaccine, had a problem. I mean, my wife is a private practicing pediatrician and she was in on a weekend helping inoculate children, helping the nurse inoculate. And so there was a four month old sitting on her mother's lap.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

There's now an mRNA vaccine against RSV, but they're designed to prevent specific diseases, not everything else that happens in life. And that's what you're up against. Got a vaccine, had a problem. I mean, my wife is a private practicing pediatrician and she was in on a weekend helping inoculate children, helping the nurse inoculate. And so there was a four month old sitting on her mother's lap.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

There's now an mRNA vaccine against RSV, but they're designed to prevent specific diseases, not everything else that happens in life. And that's what you're up against. Got a vaccine, had a problem. I mean, my wife is a private practicing pediatrician and she was in on a weekend helping inoculate children, helping the nurse inoculate. And so there was a four month old sitting on her mother's lap.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

And while my wife was drawing the vaccine up into the syringe, the four month old had a seizure. and went on to have a permanent seizure disorder, epilepsy, and at age five was dead of a chronic neurological condition.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

And while my wife was drawing the vaccine up into the syringe, the four month old had a seizure. and went on to have a permanent seizure disorder, epilepsy, and at age five was dead of a chronic neurological condition.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

And while my wife was drawing the vaccine up into the syringe, the four month old had a seizure. and went on to have a permanent seizure disorder, epilepsy, and at age five was dead of a chronic neurological condition.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

If she had given that vaccine five minutes earlier, I think there are no amount of statistical data in the world that would have convinced her of anything other than the vaccine caused her problem. I'm the mother of a vaccine damaged child. And you understand the emotion of that. And so you're trying to argue against emotion with statistics, which is hard to do.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

If she had given that vaccine five minutes earlier, I think there are no amount of statistical data in the world that would have convinced her of anything other than the vaccine caused her problem. I'm the mother of a vaccine damaged child. And you understand the emotion of that. And so you're trying to argue against emotion with statistics, which is hard to do.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

If she had given that vaccine five minutes earlier, I think there are no amount of statistical data in the world that would have convinced her of anything other than the vaccine caused her problem. I'm the mother of a vaccine damaged child. And you understand the emotion of that. And so you're trying to argue against emotion with statistics, which is hard to do.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

No, they're doing fine, right? They're staying out of the hospital. That's the goal. I mean, you know, these viruses like respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus, influenza virus, rotavirus, I mean, those are all short incubation period mucosal infections. COVID, another short incubation period mucosal infection. And I think if there's...

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

No, they're doing fine, right? They're staying out of the hospital. That's the goal. I mean, you know, these viruses like respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus, influenza virus, rotavirus, I mean, those are all short incubation period mucosal infections. COVID, another short incubation period mucosal infection. And I think if there's...

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

No, they're doing fine, right? They're staying out of the hospital. That's the goal. I mean, you know, these viruses like respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus, influenza virus, rotavirus, I mean, those are all short incubation period mucosal infections. COVID, another short incubation period mucosal infection. And I think if there's...

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

One of the worst things we did early on in this COVID pandemic when the vaccine came out in December of 2020 was not explain that. This is a short incubation period disease, which is to say that you are not going to be protected against mild disease for long. Even if you're naturally infected or vaccinated or both, six months later, you're going to be because antibodies in your circulation will

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

One of the worst things we did early on in this COVID pandemic when the vaccine came out in December of 2020 was not explain that. This is a short incubation period disease, which is to say that you are not going to be protected against mild disease for long. Even if you're naturally infected or vaccinated or both, six months later, you're going to be because antibodies in your circulation will

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

One of the worst things we did early on in this COVID pandemic when the vaccine came out in December of 2020 was not explain that. This is a short incubation period disease, which is to say that you are not going to be protected against mild disease for long. Even if you're naturally infected or vaccinated or both, six months later, you're going to be because antibodies in your circulation will

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

decline and antibodies are critical in protection against mild to moderate disease, you could get this disease again. And we should have explained that. We didn't. And I think we didn't because we were desperate to get people vaccinated. You know, in 2021, you were 12 times more likely to be hospitalized if you weren't vaccinated, 12 times more likely to die.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

decline and antibodies are critical in protection against mild to moderate disease, you could get this disease again. And we should have explained that. We didn't. And I think we didn't because we were desperate to get people vaccinated. You know, in 2021, you were 12 times more likely to be hospitalized if you weren't vaccinated, 12 times more likely to die.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

decline and antibodies are critical in protection against mild to moderate disease, you could get this disease again. And we should have explained that. We didn't. And I think we didn't because we were desperate to get people vaccinated. You know, in 2021, you were 12 times more likely to be hospitalized if you weren't vaccinated, 12 times more likely to die.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

And we wanted people to get vaccinated. So I think we over... promised because people would get the vaccine and it was mandated, which made people even angrier. And then they would get a mild or moderate infection, which wasn't easy, right? Fever, headache, I mean, joint pain, coughing. And they were saying, you know, they lied to me here.