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Plenary Session

5.28 - Pandemic Amnesty or Accountability with Paul Fenyves

Plenary Session

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH

Health, Medicine, Policy, Oncology, Science & Medicine

4.7789 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

I am joined by Cornell Professor Paul Fenyves; a practicing internist Dr. Fenyves walks us through COVID19 policy. We will be back soon with more cancer medicine. Including a devastating lymphoma one.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the channel. In today's interview, I sit down with Cornell University professor Paul Finneves.

0:06.0

We're going to talk about three things, and I want you to stick through it.

0:09.0

The first thing we're going to talk about is pandemic amnesty or accountability.

0:14.0

Which is right. Emily Oster wrote the former. I wrote the latter.

0:17.0

Paul comes in and he tries to offer a solution that might make everyone happy. Next, we talk

0:23.1

about Paxlivid. We talk about the unknown risks of therapeutics. How does Paul think about this?

0:28.9

And finally, we talk about a very contentious subject, vaccine mandates. As you all know,

0:35.8

it was one of the few people who over and over and over again in op-eds in 2021, I said,

0:40.0

you do not want passports, you do not want mandates, certainly not in America.

0:43.8

Paul initially felt differently, but right now he's come around to being against any and all mandates for boosters in perpetuity.

0:52.0

I think it's important that we talk to somebody who we might have initially disagreed with,

0:55.8

but now we see eye to eye,

0:57.4

to get to hear how he thought about this over time

1:00.0

and why his thinking evolved.

1:01.8

So don't turn him off.

1:03.7

Don't tune him away.

1:05.6

Listen to what he has to say

1:06.7

because he might actually make some points

1:08.3

by the end of it.

1:09.1

You're going to like a great deal.

1:10.6

So that's the order of this interview.

1:12.7

Stay tuned.

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