Gavin de Becker

But I want to go right to your question, which is the assessment that we would have to do for anything, forget vaccines, for any kind of drug, is what's the likelihood of getting, in the case of vaccines, you have to say, what's the likelihood of getting the disease?

What's the likelihood of having a terrible consequence from the disease?

And does the vaccine work?

And does the vaccine have any harm for anybody, right?

Well, I just want to talk about a couple of these.

Tetanus vaccine.

In the United States, the number of people who died from tetanus in a decade is 13.

13 human beings, all old, by the way.

The number of people who got tetanus in a decade, 154.

My point on tetanus is that all over the world, there's a map in this book, all over the world, the tetanus, how do you get tetanus, first of all?

It's not transmissible, as you may know.

Everybody thinks you get it from a deep puncture wound with a rusty nail or what have you.

Rust does not give you tetanus.

It is a bacteria called the tetanus bacteria.

And you've got to find it, first of all.

And you take an army to find it in the United States, by the way.

You won't find a doctor who's ever had a patient with tetanus in the United States.

All over the world.

It is fewer than one in a million people in the United States, in all of Central America and South America, all 22 countries.

You can't find it.