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.

Happiness is not about being happy all the time. A happy life is not about experiencing a constant high all the time. In fact, it's about embracing painful emotions—accepting the fact that they're part and parcel of every life ... When we accept and embrace painful emotions, that's when we open ourselves up to more happiness.

Levels of empathy among 20-year-olds today [are]... 40% lower than empathy levels of 20-year-olds from 20 years ago. In other words, over a period of 20 years, empathy levels went down by 40%.

Right now, over 40% of college students report being too depressed to function; over 60% say they're overwhelmingly anxious; more than 1 in 10 has seriously considered suicide in the last 12 months.

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.

Meaning is not happiness. At the same time, a person without a sense of meaning in life would be really stretched or probably impossible to find happiness. So, meaning is a necessary but not sufficient condition for happiness.

The reason why levels of depression are so high among teenagers is because they're spending more and more time on the smartphone, technology. The number one addiction today—not alcohol, not drugs, not gambling; it's technology. And we're paying a high price for it.

Our minds lie to us when it comes to happiness. There's so many ways that we get happiness wrong, and I think one of them is just that—that we think we should be happy all the time, that it's normative to be happy all the time.

When we increase or improve our mood, when we experience more positive, pleasurable emotions, we are more likely to think outside the box.

I think of being happy in your life as having a decent ratio of positive to negative emotions. It's not no negative emotions; it's not positive emotion, you know, happiness emoji all the time. But it's, like, generally having a decent ratio of things like laughter and joy to things like sadness, anger, and so on. That's happy in your life.

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.

The foundation of happiness is first allowing in unhappiness.

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

People who tend, naturally, to have a higher subjective well-being—they just tend, naturally, to do the behaviors that wind up improving your happiness.

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

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.

Our sense of having free time really matters for our well-being. Much more so than our wealth affluence, our time affluence matters a lot.

We don't think about happiness the right way. We have these cognitive biases when it comes to happiness and achieving happiness ... One of the big ones is that we don't realize our minds get used to stuff.