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Okay here we go.

Hi everyone, my name is Kaia. I am the director of the longevity road map docu series and I'm joined here today with Drew Perot and Darcy Gross and of course expert himself Mark Hyman and this is our first ever Dr. Hyman plus ask me anything and this is the first of many so continue to submit your questions at Dr. Hyman plus and we'll keep doing this.

So let's get started. I'm going to pass it over to Drew for the first question. Great thanks, and welcome to our Dr. Hyman plus audience and welcome to the man who is the plus Dr. Hyman.

We have a bunch of great questions here from our community. So I'm going to jump right in with one of the very popular questions that came in in this world of COVID-19 and all things pandemic.

And so people are trying to make the right decision for their health and a big part of that includes making the decision around vaccines and how to go about it. And I want to start off with you did a whole podcast on it.

So we will cover some of the topics you covered there. But really first and foremost, people want to know from your perspective as a human being and also a doctor, but you're making a decision for your personal health.

And so Dr. Hyman planning on getting the vaccine. And if so, when would that be or how is he thinking about it?

You go right for the hard question right away.

There's no more. There's nothing. Just right in there.

So the answer is I qualified. Yes. And I will qualify what I mean by yes. First of all, what's going to happen to our society is there's not going to be a vaccine mandate.

But if you want to travel, if you want to go to a restaurant, if you want to go on airplane, if you want to book a hotel, if you want to rent a car, you might have to have a vaccine certificate.

And those are decisions that individual businesses will make. And I think that's going to drive who decides to get a vaccine or not.

Well, that said, I think I think the vaccine world right now around COVID has a lot of good science around it. But it's still a little bit like building the jumbo jet while you're flying it.

And we have real long term data on a lot of the questions that are still persist out there about vaccines. So let me sort of just give you like a primer on what the vaccines are and how they work and what we know and what we don't know.

There's about five different phase three trials and clinical vaccines that are sort of really happening right now. There's there's the Pfizer and Moderna AstraZeneca J and J. And there's others actually that are emerging from China and Russia and so forth.

So there's a bunch in the pipeline. They're different somewhere and more and A vaccine somewhere add no virus vaccine. Some use other technologies and vectors to get an immune response.

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