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Your Vaccine Questions Deserve Real Answers | Kizzmekia Corbett | TED

What good is a vaccine people don’t trust? Immunologist and TED Fellow Kizzmekia Corbett co-developed the first COVID-19 vaccine to enter clinical trials — but she says making the vaccine was never the hardest part. The real obstacle is the gap between scientists and the people who have honest questions about the shots they’re being…

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What good is a vaccine people don’t trust? Immunologist and TED Fellow Kizzmekia Corbett co-developed the first COVID-19 vaccine to enter clinical trials — but she says making the vaccine was never the hardest part. The real obstacle is the gap between scientists and the people who have honest questions about the shots they’re being asked to take. She shares a refreshing approach for taking on vaccine inquisitiveness and ensuring that humanity is ready for the next pandemic. (Recorded at TED2026 on April 15, 2026)

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  1. @PRIDE-2SLGBTQQIPAA-PlusForever

    July 6, 2026 at 11:06 am

    Flu vaccine is scam…

    • @julandazachary2776

      July 6, 2026 at 11:11 am

      Didn’t listen to anything she said. Flu virus 🦠 continues to mutate hence why we need shots every year

    • @letsgoebeyond

      July 6, 2026 at 11:34 am

      ​@julandazachary2776 how long have humans been around, not vaccinated, with the flu around, naturally building immunity.

      Huh. Interesting.

    • @julandazachary2776

      July 6, 2026 at 3:31 pm

      @letsgoebeyondDo you know what variolation / inoculation is?

    • @julandazachary2776

      July 6, 2026 at 3:37 pm

      Variolation/ inoculation proceeds vaccinations. You should look up Cotton Mathers and a west African slave named Onesimus. Humans used this method to fight against smallpox because a 50% chance is better than dead. Vaccines efficacy is around high 90’s to 85% on most vaccines. Flu shot is around 60%. This shows vaccinations are highly effective.

    • @julandazachary2776

      July 6, 2026 at 3:46 pm

      @letsgoebeyondnatural immunity is 50% efficacy lol

  2. @ImaginativeFlow

    July 6, 2026 at 11:12 am

    Its a Scam, so is TedTalk

  3. @MrRoberthafetz

    July 6, 2026 at 11:14 am

    40% of all research is invalid. Science is political and can be corrupted. Two examples climate change and renewable energy The CDC completely screwed up their response to the virus. IT didnt help to have president who was o impaired he couldnt function.

    • @rikachiu

      July 6, 2026 at 4:39 pm

      You are beyond brainwashed.

  4. @jp6846

    July 6, 2026 at 11:15 am

    Video hasn’t even been out 15 minutes and people are already proudly revealing they did not hear a single word this woman said.

    • @archcynic404

      July 6, 2026 at 1:12 pm

      @jp6846 When you look at your screen, enough has already been said 😁

    • @julandazachary2776

      July 6, 2026 at 3:39 pm

      Facts and the level of willful ignorance is astounding

  5. @jageo48

    July 6, 2026 at 11:28 am

    *TRUST?* insists on allowing alternate scientific narratives. The old _expert opinion_ is the lowest rung of the scientific validation ladder. It was extensively used in C-19. There were no peer-reviewed meta-analyses of data. Even now, years later, no country I am aware of has stated categorically that C-19 was transported by air, not on hands or clothing. All info points to the US paying a Chinese lab to engineer a virus for wartime purposes that either escaped the lab or was intentionally released.

    • @polygon2744

      July 6, 2026 at 1:07 pm

      Look into to First Principles of virology. Go all the way back to the beginning. It’s not a science as they claim.

  6. @1000Aces

    July 6, 2026 at 11:36 am

    Ma’am, what part of vax injury and death do you not get?? This is disgustingly inappropriate and condescending at this time of mourning.

    • @julandazachary2776

      July 6, 2026 at 3:43 pm

      Please show us the evidence of any such injury!

    • @1000Aces

      July 6, 2026 at 5:37 pm

      @julandazachary2776please understand that if there’s a next time your fears and demands costs others their lives, you’ll be stopped dead in your tracks on the way to hide your face behind a mask. Best you get a booster in light of the cognitive dissonance you exhibit — for the safety of the rest of us and apparently …yourself. Next please!

  7. @user_ytndslk

    July 6, 2026 at 11:38 am

    When did TEDtalks get good again? I thought I was done with this channel.

  8. @Avarice7D

    July 6, 2026 at 11:41 am

    listen, I understand logically that there is no way a virus that is dead can make me sick. I also know from personal experience that every time I get a flu shot or any vaccine shots within a month or so I get extremely sick. Same as when I got my mil. vaccine shots, super sick afterwards. If i chose to not get a vaccine shot one year, I wouldn’t get sick that year. So I learned to hate vaccines. I know logically this can’t be, but the evidence from reactions in my own body tells me something is happening. Can you explain what’s going on or why this happens and is it possible for a person’s immune system to kill them, from a reaction to a vaccine? cause it sure felt like I was there with 104 deg. temps, to delirium, and throwing up. Basically, what’s really going on when you get a vaccine to when your body makes the antidote? I would watch a video like that and maybe get another vaccine next year.

    • @kavitadeva

      July 6, 2026 at 11:54 am

      I know people who got all the Corona vaccines and died of Covid. Hmmm.

    • @linkdude64

      July 6, 2026 at 11:55 am

      @Avarice7D SAME!!!

    • @MrRoberthafetz

      July 6, 2026 at 12:33 pm

      You may be allergic to a comical in the vaccine. Get the tama flu.

    • @Avarice7D

      July 6, 2026 at 1:09 pm

      Sorry to hear that.

    • @Avarice7D

      July 6, 2026 at 1:12 pm

      Everybody’s allergies are different so that maybe a possibility. I’m allergic to a substance that heals most people. So there could be something to that.

  9. @farmerbob728

    July 6, 2026 at 11:43 am

    People in general didn’t have trouble with the shot. They had trouble with what the government and media did with the shot.. It changed the lives of hundreds of millions of people for the worse.. Lost business and lifestyle changes..That most have never fully recovered from. Or was it just a power grab by government agencies.??

  10. @linkdude64

    July 6, 2026 at 11:56 am

    Here in Los Angeles the flu shot had a negative efficacy rate lol you were 25% MORE likely to get the flu. Your self-aggrandizing and condescension is losing me.

  11. @RebeccaJourney-Smith

    July 6, 2026 at 12:09 pm

    I love you ❤❤ Thank you❤❤

  12. @trixie-m5n

    July 6, 2026 at 12:31 pm

    A lot of experts in the comments, eye roll…

  13. @PetraKann

    July 6, 2026 at 12:35 pm

    Modified mRNA Gene Transfection Therapies are NOT vaccines…..start with that deception

    • @polygon2744

      July 6, 2026 at 1:05 pm

      Great point. Changing definitions without telling anyone is a major red flag.

    • @julandazachary2776

      July 6, 2026 at 3:41 pm

      They are the newest of vaccine technology. Stop spreading misinformation

    • @polygon2744

      July 6, 2026 at 4:56 pm

      @julandazachary2776 The classification of this technology as a “vaccine” emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Regulatory definitions were updated to accommodate these drugs under existing vax frameworks, which have low safety and approval standards compared to traditional pharmaceutical drugs. Who’s spreading misinformation.

    • @julandazachary2776

      July 6, 2026 at 5:03 pm

      @polygon2744vaccine Technology is proper scientific usage for over 30yrs. Science and technology work in tandem. Now you can concede.

    • @julandazachary2776

      July 6, 2026 at 5:04 pm

      Everything you said was a lie.

  14. @AdvancedUSA

    July 6, 2026 at 12:52 pm

    Trust is easy to lose and very hard to regain.

  15. @平和-v1z

    July 6, 2026 at 1:31 pm

    Humanity would be lost without people like her.
    Vaccines safe lives.

    • @bradleyriles3889

      July 7, 2026 at 11:48 am

      Some do, some don’t, some cause more problems. Dumb to lump so many different products under one blanket. Especially the one that is not a vaccine at all.

  16. @christian_salt

    July 6, 2026 at 1:43 pm

    Most of the people asking these questions have already made up their mind and are only prepared to accept one answer.

  17. @christian_salt

    July 6, 2026 at 1:43 pm

    It seems like most of the people asking these questions have already made up their mind and are only prepared to accept one answer.

    • @Zorieon

      July 8, 2026 at 11:50 am

      You have no stats to support this. A defeatist mindset like that is how we lose the unknowable number of young people who are genuinely asking because they are being pulled from both sides of the fence.

  18. @BasedAndRedPilled1

    July 6, 2026 at 2:29 pm

    If you want to stay perpetually sick, get vaccinated.

    • @bradleyriles3889

      July 7, 2026 at 11:54 am

      I took the old regimen as a child and cherry picked the ones for my kids. Haven’t had another vaccine in my entire adult life and almost never get sick. I think it’s been four or five years since I had the flu. Got COVID once, took IVM, got better in less than two days and never caught it again. My kids very rarely get sick either.

  19. @PCM-mc5xy

    July 6, 2026 at 2:39 pm

    Excellent news.

  20. @WillieJohnRidesAgain

    July 6, 2026 at 2:46 pm

    One issue is, this is a somewhat complex immune therapy issue and the average American reads/understands on a 5th or 6th grade level. You may as well be trying to explain String Theory to Floyd the barber.

  21. @gp2917

    July 6, 2026 at 3:23 pm

    I’m sorry, but after 10 years of Trumpism, I no longer have the strength to deal with the willfully ignorant.

    • @bradleyriles3889

      July 7, 2026 at 11:42 am

      Ok, now take your booster.

  22. @j-mt.175

    July 6, 2026 at 3:40 pm

    The question I have is,” If Measles is on the rise even for those who’ve been vaccinated, or Shingles”? How do they explain that ?

    • @roddudaful

      July 6, 2026 at 11:29 pm

      It’s possible to get measles even if vaccinated. But, it is very unlikely. Unvaccinated, you have a good chance once exposed. MMR vaccine can wane over time. I got mine in Grammar school around 1966. I’m sure there is a small chance. What makes it more prevalent and contagious is undervaccination. Herd immunity can’t take hold if not enough people, esp children, are not vaccinated. Basically, the unvaccinated, put everyone at risk.

  23. @Hawk259

    July 6, 2026 at 3:53 pm

    Brilliant!!!!

  24. @rikachiu

    July 6, 2026 at 4:40 pm

    These morons in chat will inject black market peptides, eat horse paste, and turn into a porcupine via accupuncture, but question the most studied and tested vaccines. It’s truly incredible. Natural selection can’t work faster! 😭

    • @Larissa-x6u5j

      July 6, 2026 at 5:53 pm

      Why are y’all worried about who is getting what ? If your shots work for you and make you feel safe great but no one should be pressured into putting things into their body they’re not comfortable with that’s what pro choice is about you choose what works for yourself and your body right ? people really need to mind their own business .

    • @rikachiu

      July 6, 2026 at 6:16 pm

      @Larissa-x6u5j Because we need to create herd immunity and protect those who are immunocompromised AND prevent new diseases to further mutate forcing us to go back to the drawing boards to create another vaccine when we could have nipped the original disease in the butt!

      For vaccines to work fully as intended requires the collaboration of every human!

  25. @roddudaful

    July 6, 2026 at 11:07 pm

    Thank you Mam. Retired RN here. The last few years of my career were spent trying to alleviate the fears people had about getting the covid and flu vaccines. Some questions I got were educated and served a purpose, and the other 75% were argumentative and political. The one thing I had to help people make up their mind was people dying around us
    from covid. It assisted many people to get vaccinated. Thank you for your insight. Very relatable.

    • @bradleyriles3889

      July 7, 2026 at 11:40 am

      As a person who saw through the lies I shared the data on Ivermectin with the people around me and all who used it recovered from COVID within 48 hours. Twenty seven individuals, to be precise. How does that compare to the Remdesiver and ventilation protocols the “experts” instituted?

  26. @roddudaful

    July 6, 2026 at 11:34 pm

    Define negative effocacy. Are you saying that people that got the vaccine had a huge increase in disease compared to a control group of some kind?

  27. @CenturyWisdom-q5w

    July 7, 2026 at 12:57 am

    Dr. Corbett’s talk profoundly moved me. Instead of lecturing, she met our deepest fears with true empathy. Seeing the caring human behind the science made me feel completely reassured. It was a beautiful reminder that science is ultimately driven by a fierce, undeniable love for humanity.

  28. @ShawnLH88

    July 7, 2026 at 2:51 am

    They don’t need to win trust. People are generally stupid. You can’t convince them of anything

  29. @12Guy12

    July 7, 2026 at 3:04 am

    The issue is that it’s hard to have trust in a system that’s based on hierarchy/control and is geared towards monetary profits and not the health of humans/nature (these are “externalities” and/or things to profit off of). Science, like everything else, can be corrupted/manipulated by money and by other interests that don’t align with those of the general public.
    (see books like “Trust Us, We’re Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science And Gambles With Your Future” and “Merchants Of Doubt: How A Handful Of Scientists Obscured The Truth On Issues From Tobacco Smoke To Global Warming”)
    (fwiw I personally vaccinate, I’m just worried for our society)

    “The problem with the “believe science” slogan is that it presents scientific research as a neutral, harmonious process. Critiquing science as it exists today—the web of institutions, funding and employment opportunities, and research agendas inseparable from the cultural priorities and prejudices of those who design them—is not a rejection of empirical knowledge production or any conceivable iteration of scientific institutions that might exist in alternate universes. It is a way to unmask the mythology that presents science as a pure synonym for knowledge and to talk about what is actually happening right now, and what needs to happen. Ecocide is a highly technical process. Not a single one of the industries responsible for destroying our home has developed without the integral participation of academically trained experts. Not a single oil well, not a single gold mine, not a single fracking site. Scientists are shaped by the same mercenary pressures as all higher value laborers in a capitalist economy. The scientific academies and institutions that exist today generally arose or matured as part of the global process of colonialism.” (Peter Gelderloos, “The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies of Ecological Revolution from Below”)

  30. @niccolom

    July 7, 2026 at 4:24 am

    There was no trust to win “back” from those Flat Earther conspiracy theorists.
    Scientists never had their trust.

  31. @Hoyt9912

    July 7, 2026 at 6:31 am

    Scientists aren’t the ones who lost people’s trust, propagandizing politicians are the ones who did that for them.

  32. @D.Enniss

    July 7, 2026 at 8:30 am

    The problem isn’t the scientist or the science, is misinformation and the spread of ignorant conspiracy theories and distrust of overall science, facts and reality in general.
    You can’t fight stupid, you can try, but it’s hard

    • @bradleyriles3889

      July 7, 2026 at 11:46 am

      Stupid is allowing yourself to be lied to over and over again because the people lying to you tell you are smart to believe them. Science is mistrust. “The Science” is compliance based on appeals to authority. Only idiots don’t take pause when they hear “the science is settled and trust experts because smart people don’t question the experts”.

  33. @davethestoner

    July 7, 2026 at 9:20 am

    the miss trust is a simple result of lies after lies. Fake studies, Fake results, manipulated truths. The pharmaceutical industry is all about profit. A patient cured is a customer lost!

  34. @bradleyriles3889

    July 7, 2026 at 11:30 am

    Simple really. Just admit to abandoning the scientific method and promoting false narratives in the name of science for financial, personal and political gain. This would be particularly true in regard to COVID, the COVID response and the COVID “vaccines”. The people who are now called “science deniers” are the ones who truly understand what science is and want it to flourish again and the ones who call them that are zealots.

  35. @Felixgauthier-c8w

    July 8, 2026 at 4:25 am

    This is for the ignorant people who think they are educated and believe they possess the truth.

  36. @bradleyriles3889

    July 8, 2026 at 11:22 am

    What are you doing to address the problem of 1 in 15,000 young men developing myocarditis after receiving the mRNA injection? My questions deserve answers, right? Said so in the thumbnail.

  37. @bradleyriles3889

    July 8, 2026 at 11:29 am

    How is preventing travel, preventing access to education and public spaces and loss of employment without taking a shot that was only permitted under an emergency use authorization not in violation of the Nuremberg code as it pertains to coercion? How does, by your own admission here, not answering questions and shouting those down who do not violate the rule of informed consent? Please, answer these questions for me so I might not think you’re not the kind monster that the little mustache crew were.

  38. @Gruntology

    July 8, 2026 at 1:37 pm

    Quick memory refresher on just some of what we were recently told, ALL of which failed to be true:

    – “You’re not going to get covid if you have these vaccinations. — Pres Biden
    – “Vaccine prevents long covid.”
    – “Now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person.”
    – “The vaccinated do not carry the virus that causes covid.”
    – “One shot is 95 percent effective.”
    – “When people get vaccinated, they’re not going to get infected.” – -Fauci
    – “Vaccines block you from getting and giving the virus.” – Dr. Anthony Fauci
    – “Vaccine pre vents long covid.”
    – “It’s the unvaccinated people who are the most vulnerable not only to getting infected, but to getting a serious outcome.”
    – “The risk is extremely low of getting infected, of getting sick, or of transmitting it to anybody else, full stop,” says Dr. Fauci,
    – “Data has emerged again that demonstrates that even if you were to get infected during post vaccination that you can’t give it to anyone else” – – CDC Walensky
    – On March 29, 2021 Walensky told MSNBC that “Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick.”
    – “And that it’s not just in the clinical trials,” the director added, “but it’s also in real world data.”
    – “The vaccine makes you a dead end for the virus. You don’t allow it to use you as the stepping stone to spread to the next person.” – Fauci
    – “If a vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus, the virus does not infect them and the virus then cannot use that person to go anywhere else.”
    – Natural immunity doesn’t work
    – Won’t require more than one shot.
    – Won’t require more than one booster
    – 4th shot provides the most protection
    – Break through cases are extremely rare
    – It’s a pandemic of the unvaccinated
    – Nobody is injured or dying from the shot
    – If enough people get vaccinated, it halts transmission
    – “It’s 10x more lethal than the seasonal flu.” – Fauci
    – It’s as simple as b lack and white. You’re vaccinated, you’re safe. You’re un vaccinated, you’re at risk. Simple as that. – Fauci
    – Getting jabbed protects the immunocompromised that can’t have the covid vaccines
    – gene editing/gene expression drugs are a conspiracy theory
    -“The virus will hunt you down” – Anastacia Palasczuk
    – Docs/Med staffers were not bribed/incentivized to administer covid vaccination shots
    – The vac cine stays at the injection site
    – The vaccine saved millions

  39. @tedxstmu

    July 8, 2026 at 4:16 pm

    👍🏼👍🏼

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