Why the United States Should Vaccinate the Whole World

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Not everyone has received a vaccine in any given population. This is, by the way, the reason that i and many others have been arguing that the united states should vaccinate the whole world. It would cost us 50 billion dollars to ate the world. We should do it, first of all, because we profess. It's a moral obligation. And i think it's something we should do for economic reasons. If you have millions of people who are infected, that the virus has more opportunities to have a worrisome strains mutate and emerge. The wisest strategy is complete immunization.

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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