Our COVID science should be much better than it is. Here's a breakdown on spacing doses, natural immunity, gain of function research, therapeutics, healthcare worker burnout & much more.

Dr. Marty Makary is a Johns Hopkins physician and editor-in-chief of MedPage Today. Here are all our past shows!

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Topics & Timecodes:

0:00 Intro

2:35 NIH spending & COVID research

7:53 Herd Immunity, was Marty wrong, clickbait headlines

11:02 Menstrual changes and vaccines

13:08 Boosters and booster mandates

16:45 Rabies Diffr’ent Strokes rant

18:54 VAERS surveillance

21:44 Tinnitus

23:32 Spacing second vaccine dose, Johnson & Johnson booster

29:34 Natural immunity and a failure of messaging

32:40 Silencing debate and heterodox voices

36:49 Bullying and shaming in healthcare and nursing shortages

44:29 Treatments for COVID at home

49:15 Understanding risk

51:43 NIH gain of function virus research

54:26 Moderna, BARDA, and profit motives in vaccines

57:36 Marty’s thoughts on cloth masks and kids

1:06:04 Nikki Minaj & Marty

1:11:36 9-11 commission for COVID

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