Fighting Vaccine Misinformation with Purvi Parikh, M.D., FACP, FACAAI
The WoMed
Podcast Nation
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We are still in a pandemic and unfortunately, the constant spread of misinformation is still relentless. Today, your hosts are joined by Dr. Purvi Parikh, an immunologist, allergy specialist, and medical correspondent for major news outlets like CNN, NBC, CBS, and Fox. They discuss long COVID prospects, how she found her calling to tackle misinformation, and when and how she started becoming a medical correspondent. They also discuss the role of social media in misinformation, battling traditional and social media, and having discourse with people who are against the vaccine. Purvi shares her experience with Fox News, calling out the CDC, vaccine trials, and whether or not pregnant women should get the booster shot (spoiler alert: they should!). Lastly, they dive into the new pills to help fight the virus and where Purvi sees this pandemic going.
To keep up with Purvi, follow her on Instagram @panipurvinyc.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to the WOMED. |
| 0:14.5 | This week, we're sitting down with Dr. Pervey-Pourke and immunologist, allergy specialist, and medical correspondent for major news outlets like CNN, NBC, CBS, and yes, even Fox News. |
| 0:29.5 | I am so excited to hear what y'all think about this episode. We get into some fascinating research, long COVID prospects, and vaccines, obviously. |
| 0:41.1 | So here's a thought. Instead of rating an episode this week, let's chat about what's going |
| 0:46.9 | on in the world, D. Yeah, you know, striking down or giving women even less reproductive |
| 0:52.4 | rights is, you know, a major well-know. Nobody has the right |
| 0:57.9 | to use your body against your will to save their life. I mean, you can't be forced to donate blood |
| 1:03.7 | or bone marrow or organs. You can't even be forced to donate your organs post-mortem without |
| 1:10.4 | signing over your body. |
| 1:12.6 | Oh, right. |
| 1:13.9 | I mean, I never thought about it like that, actually. |
| 1:16.6 | But I mean, a corpse should not have more rights than a living human, right? |
| 1:23.9 | And this challenge to Roe v. Wade could literally open the floodgates for abortion bans across |
| 1:30.3 | the country. So I think we'll have to save that for another episode though. What do you think? |
| 1:36.2 | I think you're right. I think that's going to be an entire episode in itself. And it's a hot button |
| 1:40.9 | topic. But it's like we just really need to have that discussion. |
| 1:45.8 | I think that's going to be really important. |
| 1:47.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:47.9 | So challenging Roe v. Wade, we're going to put a wo no to that one. |
| 1:53.0 | Definitely. |
| 1:54.9 | All right. |
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