1538 Dr Peter Hotez on the state of Vaccination in America
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Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
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Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, is the founding dean of The National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, as well as director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of National Academies as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A pediatrician and an expert in vaccinology and tropical disease, Hotez has authored hundreds of peer-reviewed articles and editorials as well dozens of textbook chapters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my friends, and welcome to today's show. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm still on vacation, but I do have a great conversation with Dr. Peter Hotez, who is a vaccine expert, a vaccine maker, and one of the most respected doctors in the whole field. |
| 0:18.0 | Old friend of mine, very happy to share this with you. |
| 0:20.6 | I am still out in Arizona |
| 0:22.5 | with Julia, we're having a great time. No hangout tonight because I really did take the week off |
| 0:27.7 | to spend with my daughter. Thank you to everybody who has sent me thoughtful kind, wishes and notes. |
| 0:34.7 | A couple of people even sent me dinner money, which I thought was very nice. Thank you very much to Anthony and Salil for buying us dinner. Thank you mostly to Mindy and Mike Cunningham, who are the kindest, generous, most fun, laid back, easygoing human beings ever for putting us up out here. We've had a great time. And even though the weather's been a little bit |
| 0:56.0 | cool for this time of year, we're making the best of it. Thank you very much for listening today. |
| 1:00.3 | I think you're going to love this conversation with Dr. Hotez. We talked about the measles outbreak. |
| 1:05.2 | We talked about so much more in terms of vaccination and where we're at. Kind of wanted to get the lay of the land, the state of the union when it comes to vaccination |
| 1:14.5 | and the Make America Make America Healthy and Great Again movement and where we're at with it all. |
| 1:21.2 | So get all of his books, support him on social media, let him know that you heard him here on the show. |
| 1:26.2 | Let's do it today with Dr. Peter |
| 1:28.5 | Hotez. All right. I'm so excited because I've got my friend, Dr. Peter Hotes, who I've known |
| 1:34.9 | a long time and who I think is a national hero. And I am so excited whenever I get the opportunity |
| 1:40.1 | to talk to you. And thank you very much for agreeing to do this today. How are you? |
| 1:45.5 | Oh, great. It's a real honor, Pete, and I always love our conversations. And it's always good to see |
| 1:50.5 | you. I'm going to be 68 this year. So it's good to see anybody. |
| 1:55.9 | Are you really? What is that like? How is the sixth decade? |
| 2:00.8 | Yes. |
| 2:01.5 | I'm doing okay. |
| 2:03.3 | Yeah, I'm doing okay. |
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