1460: The LDS Church and the COVID Vaccine
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 189 minutes
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Summary
Over the past few days the Intensive Care Units in Utah hospitals and around the U.S. began to overflow with COVID patients. Reports began to emerge that as high as 99% of the ICU patients and deceased were not vaccinated from COVID. In addition, the LDS Church First Presidency released a new announcement a few days ago urging members to be vaccinated. This announcement has caused many vaccine-hesitant LDS church members to question their faith in the LDS church, and/or in LDS Church president Russell M. Nelson. The announcement also has spurned several interesting conspiracy theories. There has also been a variety of responses from local LDS bishops, stake presidents, and members - from supportive to unsupportive.
On August 17th between 9am and 10am mountain time please join us as we assemble a panel of physicians and experts to discuss the status of the COVID vaccine in the U.S., in Utah, and in the LDS Church. The conversation will avoid politics, will be science-based, and we will take questions from the viewing audience.
Please join us, and please spread the word.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John DeLin. It is August 17th, |
| 0:06.9 | 2021 and we have a very important episode to bring to you today on Mormon Stories podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | We are going to be covering the LDS Church's |
| 0:17.5 | response to the COVID crisis and specifically in this episode to the COVID vaccine. |
| 0:23.8 | We've covered COVID a little bit on Mormon Stories in the past, |
| 0:26.9 | particularly during the first spike that happened last year, |
| 0:30.9 | but there is a new spike and some new news and we are going to be covering it today. |
| 0:37.6 | So I want to begin by kind of talking about my and our intentions from the very outset. |
| 0:45.7 | Our goal is to responsibly review the evidence, the science behind COVID and the COVID vaccine. |
| 0:54.2 | We also want to cover the state of the COVID vaccine situation in Utah and in surrounding states. |
| 1:01.8 | We are not interested in demeaning or speaking down to anyone who has a various position. |
| 1:08.8 | If we're going to bring up anyone's counter position to something like the vaccine, |
| 1:14.3 | we want to steal man their arguments and do the best faith interpretations of what they feel are very legitimate concerns about the vaccine or the COVID vaccines. |
| 1:23.9 | Specifically, we want to help as many Mormons, post- Mormons, Utahns, Idahoans, Arizonaans, Californians, |
| 1:31.3 | and anyone else avoid death or unnecessary death or serious injury. |
| 1:37.2 | And we are not here to be political. |
| 1:39.4 | My goal is that no political party or candidate or politician ever gets mentioned in this entire episode. |
| 1:46.1 | I was going to mention that to the panelists before we start. |
| 1:48.8 | Let's just never bring politics up at all. |
| 1:52.0 | If that's okay, we're not here to demean any side or position. |
| 1:55.8 | And we're actually not even here to fear monger because fear mongering doesn't work. |
| 2:01.4 | I want to give a little bit of background on why I decided to cover the episode this week. |
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