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Dr. Paul Offit

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit

This includes the Omicron strains. Therefore, those are the strains that are circulating, so it's better. And we've never used a bivalent vaccine again for that reason, right? And so he was there. So it was Pamela Brown on CNN shows a clip of Dr. Jha saying, better need to get it. So then she turns, I'm remote, but she turns to me, she says, well, was he wrong?

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

See, that's not the question you want to ask because it's not about him. Also, my hospital doesn't like it when you sort of criticize COVID response coordinators from the White House. They're not big on that. So So my answer was, you know, it doesn't matter what he says. It doesn't matter what I say. The only thing that matters is what the data show.

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

See, that's not the question you want to ask because it's not about him. Also, my hospital doesn't like it when you sort of criticize COVID response coordinators from the White House. They're not big on that. So So my answer was, you know, it doesn't matter what he says. It doesn't matter what I say. The only thing that matters is what the data show.

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

See, that's not the question you want to ask because it's not about him. Also, my hospital doesn't like it when you sort of criticize COVID response coordinators from the White House. They're not big on that. So So my answer was, you know, it doesn't matter what he says. It doesn't matter what I say. The only thing that matters is what the data show.

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

There's two papers in the New England Journal of Medicine showing it's not any better. It's not worse. So I think those at high risk should get it. But do you tell people that? Because see, people would argue, see, you weren't transparent. So be transparent. So they say, okay, this was no better. We learned a lesson. And now we're not giving the biovalent vaccine anymore.

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

There's two papers in the New England Journal of Medicine showing it's not any better. It's not worse. So I think those at high risk should get it. But do you tell people that? Because see, people would argue, see, you weren't transparent. So be transparent. So they say, okay, this was no better. We learned a lesson. And now we're not giving the biovalent vaccine anymore.

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

There's two papers in the New England Journal of Medicine showing it's not any better. It's not worse. So I think those at high risk should get it. But do you tell people that? Because see, people would argue, see, you weren't transparent. So be transparent. So they say, okay, this was no better. We learned a lesson. And now we're not giving the biovalent vaccine anymore.

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

And so the response is going to be, thank you for being transparent. Now I trust you more. Or it's going to be, these people don't know what the hell they're doing. I think the likelihood is B, these people don't know what the hell they're doing. But what do you think?

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

And so the response is going to be, thank you for being transparent. Now I trust you more. Or it's going to be, these people don't know what the hell they're doing. I think the likelihood is B, these people don't know what the hell they're doing. But what do you think?

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

And so the response is going to be, thank you for being transparent. Now I trust you more. Or it's going to be, these people don't know what the hell they're doing. I think the likelihood is B, these people don't know what the hell they're doing. But what do you think?

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

Got it. Yeah. Right, got it.

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

Got it. Yeah. Right, got it.

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

Got it. Yeah. Right, got it.

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

So let me ask you this then. When I was on the advisory committee for immunization practice, it was late 90s, early 2000s, it was sort of the one, two, three hit on vaccines. It was the false concern that measles, mumps, rubella vaccine caused autism, which wasn't true, but we had to vote on that.

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

So let me ask you this then. When I was on the advisory committee for immunization practice, it was late 90s, early 2000s, it was sort of the one, two, three hit on vaccines. It was the false concern that measles, mumps, rubella vaccine caused autism, which wasn't true, but we had to vote on that.

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

So let me ask you this then. When I was on the advisory committee for immunization practice, it was late 90s, early 2000s, it was sort of the one, two, three hit on vaccines. It was the false concern that measles, mumps, rubella vaccine caused autism, which wasn't true, but we had to vote on that.

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

We had to vote on whether or not the MMR vaccine should be separated into its three component parts because Dave Weldon was a Republican congressman from Florida who was on the Appropriations Committee. He knew Andrew Wakefield, and he believed that Andrew Wakefield was right, that we could avoid autism by separating that vaccine into its three component parts.

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

We had to vote on whether or not the MMR vaccine should be separated into its three component parts because Dave Weldon was a Republican congressman from Florida who was on the Appropriations Committee. He knew Andrew Wakefield, and he believed that Andrew Wakefield was right, that we could avoid autism by separating that vaccine into its three component parts.

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

We had to vote on whether or not the MMR vaccine should be separated into its three component parts because Dave Weldon was a Republican congressman from Florida who was on the Appropriations Committee. He knew Andrew Wakefield, and he believed that Andrew Wakefield was right, that we could avoid autism by separating that vaccine into its three component parts.

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

So instead of children getting three shots, or one, two shots, right, because it's a two-shot vaccine, they would get six shots, right, with no benefit. So we voted no, but it told me about the reader which politics and sort of Trump signed.