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Here’s what I’d need to see as a doctor if I’m going to be comfortable with a COVID-19 vaccine.
Following is a partial transcript:
Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Z. Welcome to The ZDoggMD Show. We’re live, it’s August … something, I don’t know, Monday. And we’re gonna talk about vaccines because it seems like everybody’s now talking about the COVID-19 vaccine, including Bloomberg Business that did a full spread about me, no stress, talking about fighting anti-vaccine misinformation prior to COVID, and then during COVID.
The way that piece presented my views was very black and white, all vaccine all the time, no question, I think, and I think that’s a little confusing. Otherwise, it was very well done. And the reason it’s confusing is this: what would it take to get me to take a new coronavirus vaccine or give it to my family and kids?
And this is a valid question you should be asking of your own experts, doctors, and people that you trust, who understand the science and immunology of it because I had somebody I trust on the show, Dr. Paul Offit, who is a vaccine expert who has developed his own, co-developed, the rotavirus vaccine.
Kind of an expert in the space, and he said that if he doesn’t see evidence that phase III trials are done correctly, he wouldn’t take the vaccine. And I think this is really important. When you look at what Americans are saying about this, with the exception of the 1-4% of people that were surveyed that say they would never take a coronavirus vaccine under any circumstances, and you can think of them as kind of members of what I call the “anti-vaccine cult.”
So they have been so indoctrinated in this idea that all vaccines are bad, they’re harmful, that they inject foreign toxins into people, and that big pharma and government are trying to control us with these things. Those people are almost beyond reach with a few exceptions that have messaged me and said, continually watching your show has changed my mind. But for the most part, those people are entrenched and delusional and you can’t reach them.
But most other people, 30-, 40-, 50% have expressed considerable skepticism that they would quickly take a vaccine if it was approved, just FDA approved. And to be honest, their skepticism is well-founded. Because if a vaccine is approved in the next few months, say, you have to put that into the context of the fastest vaccine that has ever been developed and approved was mumps, and that took a minimum of 4 years.
So when you say: oh, we have a brand new vaccine for a different class of virus for which we have never created a vaccine, using a technique, messenger RNA that Moderna and Pfizer are using in their big vaccine trials, that has never been done. Although it’s been studied for a long time, it has never been successfully done.
And you’re gonna do it in this record time, this operation Warp Speed that the government talks about. Skepticism is in order. And in fact, if you’re not skeptical, you are not doing what I’m asking you to do, which is critically think, review the data, listen to a series of experts who are real experts, not fake experts trumped up by conspiracy theorists, right?
So you have to deeply look into it, and find people that you trust and listen, and that’s what I do as a doctor.
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Source: MedicalNewsToday.com
