Welcome to Season 4 of Plenary Session.

I'm Dr. Vinay Prasad. I'm an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, and I'm a practicing he-monged doc here at UCSF.

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And with that, let's start the show.

I want to talk about my new substack post. It's out now. It's entitled, Will Science Do a Better Job PostCovit 19? I'm going to put a link to it down below and I'll show it right

here on the screen. But before I talk about will science do better post-COVID-19,

I got to talk about something that appeared in the news today. Dr. Paul Offett. Paul

Offett is a proponent of vaccination. He is in fact the director of the vaccine education center at

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. There are no greater proponents for vaccination than Dr. Paul

Offutt. And here's what it reports in the Atlantic. It says, Dr. Offutt, quote, told me that

getting boosted would not be worth the risk for the average healthy 17-year-old boy, end quote,

quote, Offutt advised his own son who was in his 20s not to get a third dose, end quote.

Even with Omicron's ability to sidestep some of the protection vaccines provide,

Offit says he believes that his son is well protected against serious illness with two shots,

and a third just as unnecessary.

That is a staggering quote by a guy who has devoted his life, his career, towards the promotion of safe and effective vaccines.

This gentleman is on record as saying that he doesn't think his own son should get a booster.

That really should raise serious alarm bells across the community.

We've had two officials and the FDA drug products resign.

We've had the director and the deputy director.

Now you have Paul Offit, a man whose credentials for vaccination cannot be questioned.

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