The Uncomfortable Truth Of What Really Happened With COVID | Dr. Paul Offit

The Checkup with Doctor Mike

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Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 24 March 2024

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Paul Offit is the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of the FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee. He's also the author of a new book called "Tell Me When It's Over" that audits the United States' response during the COVID-19 pandemic. His unbiased and expert point of view is essential to help us understand what mistakes were made, by both the Trump and Biden administrations, so we can be better prepared for disasters in the future.

Buy Dr. Offit's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739432/tell-me-when-its-over-by-paul-a-offit-md/

Subscribe to Dr. Offit's substack here: https://pauloffit.substack.com/

00:00 Intro

01:20 Not Trusting Our Institutions

11:33 Boosters

23:16 Supreme Court / “Shutdowns”

35:20 Trump’s Mistakes

38:22 Biden’s Mistakes

41:29 Myocarditis

46:10 Gurus and Confidence

49:50 Inaccurate Reporting

52:22 Disinformation Dozen

1:06:30 Debates On Social Media

1:16:50 Strep Throat

1:22:48 RFK Jr.

1:36:49 Lab Leak Theory

1:45:00 The Future

1:47:25 Long COVID / Paxlovid

Executive Producer and Host: Doctor Mike Varshavski

Produced by Dan Owens and Sam Bowers

Art by Caroline Weigum

Transcript

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0:00.0	That's what I really felt that it wasn't just the Trump administration.
0:04.0	It was the Biden administration too that had a political agenda because vaccines were a good story.
0:09.0	That we were trying to do something. We were trying to save lives.
0:12.2	Dr Paul Offett is the director of the
0:14.2	Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia as well as a
0:18.2	professor of Vaccinology and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a co-inventor of the Rotavirus vaccine
0:24.9	and a member of the FDA's Vaccine Advisory Committee,
0:28.0	meaning he was part of the team that gave the FDA
0:30.6	a formal recommendation to approve the vaccine for COVID-19.
0:34.8	He's one of the world's biggest experts on vaccines and boy does he have some opinions.
0:39.1	He's publishing a new book called Tell Me When It's Over, that details what mistakes were made by both the Trump and
0:45.4	Biden administration as it relates to COVID, how terribly broken our medical mass communication
0:51.2	is, and the clear value of being transparent and
0:54.1	honest the general public as scientists. All that and so much more as we welcome
0:59.2	Dr Paul Offett to the checkup podcast.
1:01.1	Dr. Offett since we last spoke,
1:04.0	there's been a lot of developments happening
1:07.0	both with the COVID-19 pandemic,
1:10.0	with other vaccines, with measles outbreaks,
1:13.1	with frankly a complete loss of trust in our institutions.
1:17.4	Both the FDA, the CDC has faced large distrust
1:21.0	from the general public.
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