Vaccines

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There is no reason to believe, no rational reason that anyone can discern, you know, that that would be the case. The rates of the adverse events are almost, without exception, exceedingly low - less than one out of a thousand people. And i think in every case, these treatments have been less validated and less safety tested than the vaccines themselves. But they're still worth it, because your alternative is to run the risk of death from the virus.

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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