Winter is Coming. Are We Prepared? (with Katherine Wu)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
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Vaccines Block All Transmission
When the fda was setting out standards for vaccine makers to meet, they were saying, we let's reduce disease, or severe disease, by 50%. That is such a different bar then a, you know what? The clinical trials ended upusing. And i think part of it was also, in a literal p r we wanted people to be excited about these shots. But maya, maybe it was short sighted. Agi if we stayed amped up to every virus or bacterium or whatever we ever encountered, like, we would have all exploded a long time ago.
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