Former CDC Director Calls for Removal of mRNA Vaccines for COVID-19 | Dr. Robert Redfield
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says he’d like to see the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines phased out and eventually removed from the market.
Redfield led the CDC from 2018 to 2021. While an avid proponent of vaccines in general, he hopes that the fallout from the emergency-authorized mRNA vaccines will lead to a broader recognition that vaccine manufacturers must no longer be exempt from liability.
Redfield is a clinical virologist who, prior to his appointment as CDC director in 2018, spent decades in HIV/AIDS research and clinical care, including service in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and later at the University of Maryland, where he co-founded the Institute of Human Virology.
Over the past few years, he’s been at the forefront of treating patients who were injured by the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
In my interview with him, we covered at length the many hot topics and questions surrounding the recent pandemic and our pandemic response, among them:
How and why was the true origin of SARS-COV-2 suppressed? What indicators were there early on that the virus was likely leaked from a lab? What did Dr. Redfield know from classified documents at the beginning of 2020?
What were the most significant missteps America made in its response to the pandemic?
Is there a role for gain-of-function research in America? Or should it be outlawed?
What is the future of mRNA technology? Should mRNA technology be used for vaccines at all?
Why weren’t the vaccine-injured publicly acknowledged and adequately cared for?
What kinds of reforms are needed in America’s public health system?
Redfield’s new book is titled “Redfield’s Warning: What I Learned (but Couldn’t Tell You) Might Save Your Life.”
He argues a lab-created bird flu may be the next pandemic. But are we prepared?
Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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| 0:00.0 | How did this virus jump from a bat to man and become the most infectious virus? |
| 0:05.0 | That's not how these coronaviruses act. |
| 0:07.0 | In this episode, I sit down with clinical virologist and former CDC director, Dr. Robert Redfield, author of Redfield's Warning. |
| 0:16.0 | The scientific community went after me aggressively, tried to discredit me. And all I was doing is raising my |
| 0:21.2 | scientific hypothesis. We now know that this epidemic started in Wuhan back in August, September. |
| 0:27.6 | It didn't start when the proximal origin says it started. |
| 0:30.9 | Almost six years on, have we learned the right lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic? And will |
| 0:36.3 | there finally be an acknowledgement of those who were injured by the COVID-19 pandemic? And will there finally be an acknowledgement of those who were |
| 0:38.7 | injured by the COVID-19 MRNA vaccines? |
| 0:41.6 | The hardest thing for these patients is that no one believes them. Their lives have been ruined, |
| 0:47.3 | and most of them got vaccines not because they necessarily wanted to and they had to. |
| 0:52.9 | What kinds of reforms are needed in America's public health system? |
| 0:57.0 | There's a real opportunity to commit ourselves to building a health system. |
| 1:03.0 | My compensation as a doctor is I'm compensated not for making sure I treat your disease. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm compensated for keeping you healthy. |
| 1:12.4 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Jania Kellick. |
| 1:17.7 | Dr. Robert Redfield, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders. |
| 1:21.8 | Thanks for having me. Glad to be here. |
| 1:23.9 | So the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Vinay Prasad recently circulated |
| 1:30.6 | an internal email that talked about how no fewer than 10 child deaths could be related |
| 1:37.2 | to COVID-19 vaccination. |
| 1:39.6 | He said this is a profound revelation for the first time the US FDA will acknowledge |
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