Asked & Answered: SmartHER with Dr. Marty Makary
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Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
What’s really the truth about natural immunity and COVID-19? What should those with a previous infection consider when weighing a COVID-19 vaccine? What about mask wearing and children? And what do many of those severely ill from COVID have in common that no one seems to want to focus on? Dr. Marty Makary, professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has never avoided tough questions or breaking from the pack of group-think. We ask him about some of his recent work and why he thinks it’s worth igniting a firestorm of debate over some of the most talked about issues of our time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from the Heartland. My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News, news when it matters and why it matters. |
| 0:10.4 | Our Smarter series features unique people who help us think and live smarter. |
| 0:18.9 | Well, I'm really excited about our guests today. I'm excited about all our guests, quite frankly. But I'm really excited about our guests today. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm excited about all our guests, quite frankly. |
| 0:23.6 | But I'm really excited about our next guest for a host of different reasons. |
| 0:28.2 | Dr. Marty McCary is a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:32.1 | He has a background in surgery. |
| 0:33.8 | But his current research really focuses on the underlying cause of disease, which is a great |
| 0:38.8 | topic to have an expertise on during this time. |
| 0:42.0 | He's also an author of a few books, but one that just hit the New York Times bestselling |
| 0:46.9 | list, which is the price we pay, what broke American health care and how to fix it, also |
| 0:52.8 | an appropriate topic. |
| 0:58.6 | Over the course in my journalism career, I've spoken to Dr. McCarray many times on any number of random topics. |
| 1:00.3 | And I watched his work over the last year with some great interests for the topics that he's |
| 1:07.2 | choosing to tackle and the reasons why he's choosing to tackle them. |
| 1:10.4 | So let me just |
| 1:11.0 | share this with you. Here are some of his recent editorials in the Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:15.1 | One, the title is the power of natural immunity. The other, the flimsy evidence behind the |
| 1:21.0 | CDC's push to vaccinate children. And yet another one that just came out, the case against |
| 1:26.2 | masks for children. So you can see these are |
| 1:29.3 | really big important topics. He's a very unique perspective. The more voices that we can add to the |
| 1:34.7 | conversation, hopefully the clearer we get on this very developing story. And I like to emphasize |
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