Dr. Michael Osterholm:
Well, what happens is, Mr. Kennedy continues to use words that make it sound like he knows what he’s talking about, but, in fact, he doesn’t.
We know in the pandemic that the COVID vaccines were good, but not great. No, did they stop everyone from getting infected? No, did they stop everyone from transmitting the virus? No. But did they, in fact, greatly reduce the number of people who got seriously ill, people who had to be hospitalized or people who died? They were outstanding in that regard.
But that’s the same way it is with our current flu vaccines that we have. Even though they’re not mRNA, we have the same thing with seasonal flu. So any respiratory virus is going to be a challenge and not based just on this technology.
And whereas Mr. Kennedy also alluded to that somehow these vaccines drive the virus to change, again, simply not true. So, to the average citizen hearing this, they’re going to say, wait a minute, maybe I shouldn’t get that.
And, remember, we know very well vaccines are important, but they’re nothing until they become a vaccination. So what he also did yesterday, besides cutting this research out, he just created more doubt in the minds of the public about these vaccines, which is absolutely a horrible, horrible situation.
