Do You Really Want to Give Me Something Dangerous?

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I've seen a lot of cases recently where there was some resistance in various hospital systems, but in the end, only a hundred or 200 people simply refused to get vaccinatedd. What i've seen is that when, when those things have been implemented, they, they have been effective. The same with the military, by the way. Iv never understood the argument in the military, because, you know, if you can order people to battle, and they run the risk of being shot and dying, why you can't order them to be vaccinated? And what will the subtextifand that?

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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