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Hey listeners, it's Lindsay Smith Rogers, and today we're welcoming Maggie Bartlett for a special

conversation about trust in public health and communication.

Maggie is a virologist here at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She's also

co-host of a new podcast called Why Should I Trust You? Why Should I Trust You looks at this breakdown of

trust and brings together diverse groups of people to have discussions about public health, wellness,

the Maha movement,

and more. Today's episode is also available as a video, and you can find that link in our show notes.

Let's listen.

The lack of information is a public health crisis. Corporate capture is a public health crisis,

or a system is in a public health crisis. At the end of the day, as long as I know there's a profit incentive attached

to anything in public health, I'm always going to have a degree of mistrust.

I look at some stuff and go, well, you're affiliated with people that are like pushing

ineffective or harmful supplements and medications

and making tons of money off of it. Probably the one area where there is a consensus in the

Mahal community is that, yes, vaccines are a good way to prevent the spread of infectious disease.

That being said, I think safety is where people have some questions.

I think COVID vaccine should have been like COVID vaccine asterx immunobuster or something along that line.

That way it wasn't just straight up a vaccine because when people heard polio vaccine, I got a polio vaccine, I don't get polio.

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