In the early days when it was much more severea, the woohun a th. A number of people got it, had a bad experience, but never had to go to the hospital,. Never went on a ventilator. And then we all said, well, lucky you. You're now immune. Cause that's the way we thought about things. There is some ambiguity, because its you always want to separate. Did you really get covid, completely cleared it, and then they got it again? Or did you get covid and it just never really cleared? Some believe that that is the basis by which the variants have evolved, like omicron.
When it comes to the COVID-19 vaccination, is the risk of myocarditis greater than the benefit to a healthy male teen? Is natural immunity really better than vaccination--and were we right to mask the kids? Dr. Vinay Prasad of the University of California San Francisco talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about what we learned and didn't learn from COVID so far and how we should handle a pandemic going forward.