Do You Think We're Going to See a Vaccine?

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Nicholas Sammex: Worst thing that could happen to now would be mutines of the virus which were much more deadly, let's shay. The united states is going to lag europe by about three or four or five weeks. So we should watch what's happening in europe in terms of death and their response. And i think there's a good possibility that we will have to get corona virus shots in some time interval between every year,. like we do for flue, and every ten years that we do for tetanus.

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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