What Do We Know About the Vaccines?

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How much does vaccination reduce a person's risk of hospitalization and death? And maybe maybe we can break this down by age cohort, or maybe we can take the general case. What do we know about the efficacy of the vaccines? Let's leave safety aside. Tha', that's my next question. Well, there's a huge we know a huge amount. But i think it's important to distinguish the fizer and maderna, so called m r a vaccines, from some of the others. The astrozenic and the j j vexcines are based on so called adeno virus vectors. And we have a a novo vax a protein base vaccine, which

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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