Vinay Prasad on the Pandemic

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🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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When it comes to the COVID-19 vaccination, is the risk of myocarditis greater than the benefit to a healthy male teen? Is natural immunity really better than vaccination--and were we right to mask the kids? Dr. Vinay Prasad of the University of California San Francisco talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about what we learned and didn't learn from COVID so far and how we should handle a pandemic going forward.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, but every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today's June 16, 2022.
0:39.7	My guest is the oncologist, Dr. Van Ey, Prasad.
0:42.9	His first appearance on econtalk was April of 2020, discussing cancer drugs in his book,
0:48.1	Malignant.
0:49.1	Our topic for today is COVID-19, what we've learned, what we shouldn't have learned,
0:53.4	and what we still have to learn.
0:55.6	And I welcome back to econtalk.
0:57.6	It's great to be back, Russ.
0:58.9	And of all the things I've ever done, I think I've gotten more positive emails by going
1:02.3	on your show than anything else.
1:04.2	Well, when you cure cancer, I'll slip down to number two, but I appreciate that very
1:10.0	much.
1:11.0	I want to start about vaccines.
1:12.4	We recently talked to Greg Zirkeman about vaccines here.
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