What Do We Know About Vaccine Safety?

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Vaccine safety is the sticking point. Whatever you whatever story you paint about the risks of getting covid un vaccinated, it's not scary enough to motivate them to get vaccinated. People want to think there's a desire that humans have to be the person that s so on the one hand, we, we follow the crowd and copy our neighbors. We don't wish to stick out. And i must say, i personally know people who have been spreading this pear to,. no exaggeration, tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people.

Sam Harris speaks with Nicholas Christakis about the lessons of the COVID pandemic. They discuss our failures to coordinate an effective response, the politics surrounding vaccination, vaccine efficacy, vaccine safety, how to think about scientific controversies, the epidemiology of excess deaths, transmission among the vaccinated, natural immunity, selection pressures and new variants, the failure of institutions, the lab-leak hypothesis, the efficacy of lockdowns, vaccine mandates, boosters, what would happen in a worse pandemic, and other topics.

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