The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Asking The Uncomfortable Questions About Vaccines | Dr. Paul Offit
18 Dec 2024
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It's understandable, right? I mean, children get, in the first few years of life, will get vaccines to prevent 14 different diseases, which can mean as many as 27 inoculations, to prevent diseases most people don't see, using biological fluids most people don't understand. That there's pushback on vaccines makes perfect sense. I get it.
Honestly, I get it too. I wanted to cut through the noise. So I called a friend of the channel, Dr. Paul Offit, who's a world-renowned pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology, and virology. But he's not just a medical expert.
He's also a member of the FDA Vaccines Advisory Committee, a celebrated author, and a co-creator of the RotaTeq vaccine, which has helped save the lives of hundreds of children every day.
Given Dr. Offit's commitment to making the world a healthier place, I was really excited to set the record straight on why China was actually responsible for COVID, the vaccine approval process, and I ended up even giving him my two cents on the value of transparency in medical communication. Pleasure having you back.
Thank you.
Very excited to talk about the idea of innovation in healthcare and how innovation comes with its own challenges. And something that I've been seeing in the health space, especially when it comes to the health media space, is whenever there's a breakthrough, now people are talking about it earlier than ever before, meaning earlier in its stages of development.
What are the risks of getting too excited about new technology?
Right. Well, it used to be that there were, in terms of the number of journal articles that were published per day internationally, it was about 4,000 journal articles a day. That has doubled in the time of COVID. And also there are many more preprints that are published. People will even reference preprints, meaning non-peer-reviewed preprints.
I'm waiting for people to reference something I heard on the bus on the way to work. They are saying. There's sort of a little bit of a loss, I think, in terms of the degree to which there is oversight of that kind of information. So you're right, and we're very quick to jump to the next magical, mystical thing that's going to make everything better, not realizing that
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