Even if you accept the worst claims about the risks of the mRNA vaccines, which are almost guaranteed to be false, but even accepting them, the case for getting vaccinated is absolutely clear cut given what else we know about the effects of the vaccines in preventing disease and about the effects of COVID itself.

In the teen group of 12-17 and in young adults, mostly males, across these ages—that is, between 18 and 30-odd—there is an increased risk of vaccine-induced myocarditis with mRNA vaccines. It's more with Moderna than Pfizer because the Moderna dose is much higher than that of Pfizer. It's almost a doubling there. It's extremely rare, though, and most of the cases are self-limited.

If we all took the vaccines and boosters, you know, this pandemic would be not very concerning at all ... Today, we will hit 900,000 confirmed deaths. There's a lot more of actual excess mortality and an immense amount of morbidity, which was, much of it, unnecessary, especially after the vaccines rolled out.

After you've given over 10 billion doses, for there to be claims about safety concerns or lack of efficacy, 'it doesn't work,' I mean, these are all completely bogus.

I've argued strongly with the CDC that people who have had a confirmed infection should be recognized as having some immunity, at least equivalent to one dose of vaccine.

The vaccine progression from the sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 [virus] in January, January 10th [2020], to the clinical trial, executed and completed in November, and rolling out vaccines, all in a matter of months, is of historic significance ... What we have here is one of the greatest triumphs in biomedicine in history, and it's very sad to see that being compromised by mis- and disinformation.

We're living in the presence of the largest vaccine and disease experiment ever run. We're talking about tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of people, getting the disease under conditions of being vaccinated or not, and the disparity in the results is so clear at this point. And again, even if you take the worst numbers from the most vaccine-avoidant as the ground truth for what these vaccines do to you, it's still an easy decision to get vaccinated to mitigate your risk.

You have many, many millions of people who believe some combination of the following—that the risk of COVID, the disease, has been vastly exaggerated... but the vaccines are scary and dangerous. We have literally tens of millions of people who are totally sanguine about the prospect of catching COVID but really averse to the idea of getting vaccinated for COVID.

There may be a signal of ivermectin having some efficacy. However, we can't be sure because there hasn't been any good trial large enough... to prove it.

It's taken about 10 years, on average, from identification of a pathogen to a successful vaccine.

We know vaccines are reducing long COVID, which does occur in children.

2% percent of Democrats say they will definitely will not get the vaccine whereas 23% of Republicans say that.

We've done very poor with vaccinations in this country. There's been a fierce anti-vaccine, anti-science, anti-mask and growing momentum movement against the progress that we could have made. And that's why we're so far behind many other countries around the world that have basically gotten Omicron under wraps, and they're going to be in much better shape.