Legal and Ethical Issues of the Vaccine
The Dershow
Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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What if the vaccine only protects the inoculated but still allows for spread?
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| 0:00.0 | What if they develop a vaccine that only protects the person getting the |
| 0:06.1 | vaccination from getting the illness but it doesn't prevent the |
| 0:10.5 | spread of the virus and the spread of the illness to those people who haven't |
| 0:16.0 | been vaccinated. It presents interesting moral and legal questions that we'll be |
| 0:21.7 | talking about today on the Dershau. |
| 0:28.6 | There actually is life beyond the dispute over the current election. |
| 0:34.8 | Of course, all the media are focused on |
| 0:37.7 | is Rudy Giuliani going to make this argument? |
| 0:40.6 | How is he feeling? |
| 0:42.1 | By the way, I wish him well in his bout with COVID. Are the |
| 0:47.1 | lawyers in Georgia going to create enough doubt or raise evidence. |
| 0:52.6 | That's what we're hearing about, primarily on the media. |
| 0:55.4 | But most Americans aren't thinking as much about that |
| 0:59.4 | as they are about COVID and about what's going on in the world outside and around them and how many people are sick and how many people are dying. |
| 1:10.0 | And so this morning, I really want to talk about the vaccines that are likely to be made |
| 1:17.2 | available within the next few weeks possibly. |
| 1:21.1 | Already some are made available in England, in Russia. We're not sure we trust the Russian |
| 1:26.8 | medical experimentation and whether or not the scientific basis is accurate.. We obviously trust more, but soon |
| 1:36.4 | there are going to be hard decisions to make in the United States. And this |
| 1:40.7 | morning I want to talk about one possible ethical question that may come up and also legal question and I really want your advice on it. |
| 1:51.4 | I was surprised to read in a very distinguished magazine of science the |
| 1:58.1 | following description of the vaccines that are most likely to be used in the United States |
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