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@tvttellie
December 2, 2025 at 6:25 pm
today years old when i learnt americans vaccinate against chickenpox
@wyskass861
December 2, 2025 at 6:32 pm
“What is the purpose of all the vaccines babies are given?”… Really? that’s a question?
@TheSkinnyZ
December 2, 2025 at 6:32 pm
His name was not Robert Coke. 😂😭
@greennubula
December 2, 2025 at 6:39 pm
thank you for this video, it is very important
@michigan_mids8468
December 2, 2025 at 6:41 pm
I mean DR Robert Malone would and does disagree… And he’s one of the inventors of MRNA
@jayffemt
December 2, 2025 at 6:42 pm
I was in the military for a long time. I’ve been vaccinated for things that don’t exist anymore (smallpox) and diseases that I stand very little chance of ever being exposed to (some eastern Asian diseases or anthrax). I worked EMS through COVID and watched many people suffer, and lost a family member to it. I’m a firm believer in vaccines.
@Wunderlampe089
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 pm
Brother I had Covid 6 Times 4 Times no symptoms… I got a vaccine and I had covid two more times and I was sick really sick. Not dying sick or lasting damage sick but sick. My wife has asthma and had less of a reaction than me and she is not vacced.
I was a firm believer.
@kenofken9458
December 2, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Smallpox does in fact exist. It’s functionally extinct of course, but we and the Russians still have viable samples of it in labs. That could easily get back out either through deliberate bioterrorism or else simple incompetence.
And the smallpox vaccine, at least a modernized version of it, has been widely used against monkeypox.
@TatianaBoshenka
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 pm
Hooray for Dr. Offit!
@ModernNCRph
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 pm
It is also important to remember that Wakefield conducted colonoscopy on small children for his “experiment” that resulted in some injuries to the subjects
@seatbelttruck
December 2, 2025 at 6:56 pm
You’re way more gracious than I am with anti-vaxxers, friend.
@matthewbrenn8307
December 2, 2025 at 6:58 pm
forget us..video stopped there. Go …. yourself doc.
@Girthzilla2000
December 2, 2025 at 7:07 pm
Aw are you hurt
@usa1mac
December 2, 2025 at 7:03 pm
How much lead paint and second hand smoke is ok for my kids?
@AS-kq7hw
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 pm
Well…how many do you have? Unrelated question: how many children did you want to have?
@shirairyu9806
December 2, 2025 at 7:04 pm
The Nuremberg code has ten paragraphs, this man just violated ALL of them!!!
@kenofken9458
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 pm
I’d bet you haven’t read any of those paragraphs. You believe what someone told you about them.
@jgarettbenson
December 2, 2025 at 7:10 pm
This is gruesome, awful stuff. Imagine losing your small child to one of these ghastly diseases. The anti-science junk is dangerous, and is going to kill people, and it needs to go away.
@allie.k.anderson
December 2, 2025 at 7:11 pm
Thank you for this video!
@Jmvars
December 2, 2025 at 7:12 pm
11:36
That is all well and good but try telling this to the absolute amoebas that are anti-vax people. “How do we know there are not smaller microchips that fit through that needle?!”
They will conjure literally anything up in their head to make their point valid. Research, proof and evidence is nothing to these people.
I swear the COVID-19 pandemic irreversably killed my faith in humanity.
@johnotay6655
December 2, 2025 at 7:14 pm
Thank you for this video. This series is always fun and often very educational, but this topic is so important.
@themikerichardson
December 2, 2025 at 7:40 pm
bravo to Dr. Paul and Wired
@DarkQueenMarceline
December 2, 2025 at 7:42 pm
Ease up with the random close up shots, acting like you’re adding emphasis through editing when you’re doing it every 5 seconds. Its just distracting
@homewall744
December 2, 2025 at 7:43 pm
Is there “luck” in getting over an infection or just a normal, healthy body compared to more sickly/defective ones?
@jacelynpopo2044
December 2, 2025 at 7:48 pm
I must say this is a very informative video! Especially as a first time mom 😊
@fuzzycuffs
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 pm
Now let’s field the same questions to RFK Jr and the Republicans in Congress.
@kenofken9458
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 pm
Asking any serious scientific questions of RFK Jr. is like asking a chimp to check Stephen Hawking’s math.
@norniea
December 2, 2025 at 7:59 pm
YAY! Dr. O!!
@Omnilatent
December 2, 2025 at 8:02 pm
21:25 I’m actually surprised he didn’t mention the ethical implications in the sense that Covid had the “advantage” of spreading insanely fast, which gave scientists resp. pharmaceutical companies thousands of naturally infected people who could join the trials. For many other vaccines, you need to wait for years and years for people to get infected cause it is completely unethical to purposefully infect people with a disease.
Or at least that’s how it is over here in Europe.
@MaaxMarc
December 2, 2025 at 8:03 pm
Anti-vaxxers should be arrested for being a threat to public safety.
@pcva_ninja
December 2, 2025 at 8:22 pm
thank you Dr Offit
@stu1037
December 4, 2025 at 1:08 pm
“Why aluminum in vaccines? I don’t understand.”
And why should you? Do you have the medical and chemical background to understand? If you had the medical and chemical background to understand, you wouldn’t be asking. This is the entire problem with MAHA – people WAY out of their element, questioning things they DO NOT have the background to understand.
I’m not saying not to question things you don’t understand. But you can’t just deny all truth because it doesn’t match your preconceived notion that you want to be true.
@lordraydens
December 4, 2025 at 1:13 pm
we’ve had anti-maskers since the 1918 flu pandemic
@lg-ii6pm
December 4, 2025 at 1:22 pm
Great video, and some really good questions
@sportsfanatics7818
December 4, 2025 at 1:29 pm
Very informational. Its sad to see all the dumbass anti-vaccers literally pulled us backward as a species… RFJ is full on evil profiting off the deaths of kids and others. Hes the dumbest person ever appointed to his position.
@darkkard123
December 4, 2025 at 1:37 pm
You in US and A are weird. Next thing you will have a flat Earther running NASA.
@lordicemaniac
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 pm
this has been most enlightening
@nicciswainhi
December 4, 2025 at 2:29 pm
People in America are the most ignorant to live. Willfully ignorant.
@nicola9899
December 4, 2025 at 4:25 pm
i will never understand people doubting vaccines, one of the biggest accomplishments in human history and crazy achievement in medicine!
@richardpena7153
December 4, 2025 at 4:33 pm
Excellent and informative video. It’s always nice to hear someone address vaccines with factual information.
@mitchelnext1
December 4, 2025 at 4:45 pm
did he just say only children and women are brave? forget us?
@Tomb-Wraith
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 pm
It was sarcasm.
@VictorValery
December 4, 2025 at 4:54 pm
Incredible job. Thank you!
@Ironwill_Games
December 4, 2025 at 5:32 pm
WIRED gets the most interesting, well educated, qualified people to talk, speak and comment in the most difficult to understand to controversy topics and they do it clearly, simply and plainly. How are the US what it is right now when they have all this abundant knowledge right there is being reason!
@pepe_sasia
December 4, 2025 at 5:44 pm
Sharing this with everyone I know. What a great set of explanations!
@jonanon8193
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 pm
You don’t seem to have done any research into mRNA.
You said that pharmaceutical companies can’t hide form the FDA – well they have – you need to look at the FOI’s and read the studies.
You think the FDA is protecting you?
they’re protecting their behind- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was made to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concerning data on the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
The FDA initially estimated that it would take up to 75 years to fully disclose the requested data, essentially proposing to make the documents available by 2096.
75 years – let that soak in. All those FDA officials involved in impropriety will have retired long before it’s all released.
It’s a matter of public record – but you NEED to LOOK at the public record before you will KNOW.
It may feel more comfortable to shrink into the corner and call others “cookers” and “antivaxxers” and blindly trust the establishment.
Anyone who wants to READ FOR THEMSELVES the plethora of studies into problems with recent vaccines, search for covid on Dr John Campbells youtube channel.
He was telling everyone their get their shots, but as he presented study after study he red-pilled himself.
@ccvjd3909
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 pm
Lost all credibility when he said the wuhan virus didnt originate in that lab. Its not a conspiracy and early evidence shows the doctors were some of the first to be infected.
@Tomb-Wraith
December 4, 2025 at 7:51 pm
Healthcare workers getting sick first doesn’t prove a lab leak. That happens in every infectious outbreak.
And the truth is simple: after years of investigation, there’s still no confirmed origin. Claiming certainty isn’t science. It’s speculation.
@robotron17
December 4, 2025 at 6:09 pm
*Offit admitted to being a paid shill:* In a government hearing in 2000, Offit “…disclosed that he is paid by the pharmaceutical industry to travel around the country and teach doctors that vaccines are safe”.
@ValerieVfc
December 4, 2025 at 6:21 pm
Love this! He has lived in this real world and learned a great deal about humans, thank you for sharing your wisdom.
@jonanon8193
December 4, 2025 at 6:36 pm
You seem to have a misguided trust in the FDA – they’re protecting their behind.
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was made to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concerning data on the ****** *****-** *******.
The FDA initially estimated that it would take up to 75 years to fully disclose the requested data, essentially proposing to make the documents available by 2096.
75 years – let that soak in. All those FDA officials involved in impropriety will have retired long before it’s all released.
It’s a matter of public record – but you NEED to LOOK at the public record before you will KNOW.
@jonanon8193
December 4, 2025 at 6:44 pm
The above is a cut-down version of my original comment which was silently removed by youtube.
When I look on youtube my original comment is there, but when anyone else looks it’s not there.
So you need to know the comments here are being silently filtered.
Even the number of asterisks in the above comment was changed by youtube so it no-longer reflects the actual words
– the words that must not be spoken (in a bad light)-
@jpotter2086
December 4, 2025 at 6:39 pm
Biggest mistake of our COVID response was being, collectively, too good, or too complicit, in hiding it. Suffering and death were not in enough people’ faces.
@jonanon8193
December 4, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Injecting aluminum and eating aluminum are totally separate things.
He is insulting the intelligence of the viewers and himself by claiming safety of one because of safety of the other.
This is an apologist video – it’s not scientific at all – designed to appeal to the masses that aren’t concerned with fact checking.
@robotron17
December 4, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Obviously. That’s the whole point of injecting something … to bypass the body’s defenses.
@jonanon8193
December 4, 2025 at 8:08 pm
@robotron17 I’m not talking about the point behind injecting.
The point I’m making is that many things are safe when eaten but highly toxic when injected.
Therefore the argument that “we eat it so it’s safe to inject” is a fallacy, anti-scientific, and designed to appeal to people who don’t think too deeply about these things.
In other words his talk is a apologist talk – it’s
unscientific.
@robotron17
December 4, 2025 at 8:23 pm
@jonanon8193 I know. I’m agreeing with you. To compare environmental/dietary toxins with injected toxins undermines the foundational point of injections
@flightmasterr231
December 4, 2025 at 7:01 pm
This kind of polemical, ideological approach to vaccination is exactly what DOESN’T convince the other side. Terrible optics
@Ken-er9cq
December 4, 2025 at 7:10 pm
16:39 We fortunately have been able to eliminate big hair. It is strange that people wonder about where the Covid vaccine ends up but not the Covid virus. Both are broken up by the immune system and then excreted. Levels of the virus would be much higher than the vaccine.
@Charlee1224
December 4, 2025 at 7:11 pm
I only got the REAL flu once. I was sooo sick for 3 weeks. Now I get a flu vaccination shot every year, and guess what, NO FLU !! Thanks Doc !
@BiancaStubbs-o1y
December 4, 2025 at 7:38 pm
Why does my arm get sore after receiving a vaccine?
@Tomb-Wraith
December 4, 2025 at 7:46 pm
Inflammation.
@LouieLouie505
December 4, 2025 at 7:47 pm
RFK Jr is in no way correct regarding anything he claims about medicine. That is very obvious.
@donnasitu7451
December 5, 2025 at 11:21 am
Anti-vaxxers are people who are afraid and ignorant, and choose to stay this way.
@h1eigirl
December 5, 2025 at 11:37 am
Hmmm does any of you have actually read a vaccine insert?? 🤣🤣
@RaymondPorter-w4y1g
December 5, 2025 at 1:48 pm
I’ve read them. What about them? They are legal documents and have very little to do with the actual research on safety and effectiveness.
@DonaldDucktator
December 5, 2025 at 8:03 pm
Another brainless bot with nothing to say except laughing emojis! Moving on.
@trishayamada807
December 5, 2025 at 12:03 pm
We had a whooping cough outbreak when my middle child was born; she was too young to get the pertussis vaccine and got whooping cough. She almost died and it was so horrible to see a 3 week old unable to breathe with all the mucus. It was terrifying. I was so angry at the fools who allowed this to happen. What really got to me, was all the people who didn’t have children, let alone newborns. They didn’t care if my newborn died as long as they could scream about the horrors of vaccines. Come to the hospital and look at my newborn struggling for life. A$$holes.
@frednesvet5046
December 5, 2025 at 12:35 pm
Excellent presentation but the constant panning in and out of Dr. Offit is maddening and gave me a headache.
@SANDS78
December 5, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Wakefield needs to be locked up for life.
@imowgrass
December 5, 2025 at 12:55 pm
He spoke with far too much authority on the COVID source question.
@RaymondPorter-w4y1g
December 5, 2025 at 1:47 pm
Look at the scientific research.
@teachersusan3730
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 pm
My veterinarian told me there are even antivax people who don‘t want their pets vaccinated for the fear of them becoming autistic. …🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️😵💫😵💫😵💫crazy
@whitelinesinthesky7050
December 5, 2025 at 1:38 pm
You couldn’t find an individual with more conflicts of interest than Dr. Offit.
@RaymondPorter-w4y1g
December 5, 2025 at 1:47 pm
Back again, chemtrail clown?
@DonaldDucktator
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 pm
Another brainless bot with nothing to say! Moving on.
@909rhythm
December 5, 2025 at 1:45 pm
This should be a compulsory viewing for the loony tin foil hat brigade
@rudzkium
December 5, 2025 at 1:53 pm
I could hear that Baltimore (Bawlmer) accent right away! Thanks for the great video!
@asianati8879
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 pm
Want to hear the speech for the Boy who had leukemia on 3:02. Does anyone have the source?
@Metallizombie
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 pm
To think we almost had so many preventable diseases eliminated.
@burningbird
December 5, 2025 at 3:12 pm
Bejebus, this was good. I am sharing this everywhere.
@ATinyWaffle
December 5, 2025 at 3:13 pm
Some dumbass must have heard “you get 17 vaccines” and chose to hear 72 instead.
@SuperRodriguez2005
December 5, 2025 at 3:33 pm
I appreciate that when you answering the question about the eradication of smallpox, you explicitly stated,”in the United States.” Because it is very true that there are places world wide that still have polio, smallpox and other diseases. My allergies dr. is a polio survivor. And he is amazing. Thank you.
Peace be with you!
@SuperRodriguez2005
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 pm
Whooping cough in a new baby is horrifying!
@bogdanjamal1703
December 5, 2025 at 3:51 pm
Vaccines should be made mandatory, it’s an issue of national and international security
@l0v3emily
December 5, 2025 at 5:23 pm
Put this on THEIR browser page, not mine!
@rogergeyer9851
December 5, 2025 at 6:13 pm
Nicely done! Lots of good questions, and answered well. I doubt many non-doctors knew all the answers to a meaningful degree ahead of time.
@bikerktmktm21x
December 5, 2025 at 7:19 pm
Great point on just because something is not in a single country, does not mean that the disease is gone and is still in other countries. I hadnt thought of that.
@alia724
December 5, 2025 at 7:22 pm
Small pox also had legions on your face so it was very socially impactful. If covid had sores on your face, I doubt there would be as much pushback if that was the case.
@Quiet_Now
December 5, 2025 at 7:47 pm
Good stuff, only thing i question is lab vs animals for covid
@topcca
December 5, 2025 at 7:51 pm
Anti-vaxxers dipshits!
@topcca
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 pm
People and parents these days are just STUPID!! And watch too much TikTok/FB/IG conspiracy theories.
@TheAncientDemon
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 pm
This guy pretends to understand why people have trust issues with vaccines, then 5 seconds later makes the same claims all the people promoting the covid vaccine did. Swing and a miss.
@sun1one1
December 5, 2025 at 9:17 pm
People often forget – if there was no vaccine for rabies, we couldn’t have pets at all. It would just be too dangerous.
@OmarLocke36
December 5, 2025 at 10:53 pm
Dr. offit has fixed immutable belief in shoddily made medical products that hurt people. he left out that the major source of polio is the polio vaccine. just like the case in rockland county. we can no longer have vaccine mandates of any kind in any setting. additionally, why would vaccine manufacturer require liability protection if the product is so great.
this is pharmaceutical industry propaganda.
@Tomb-Wraith
December 5, 2025 at 11:17 pm
Polio didn’t disappear because of better vibes. It disappeared because of vaccines.
The U.S. stopped using oral polio vaccine 25 years ago. Today’s cases happen where vaccination rates fell and the virus circulates again.
Liability protection exists to keep vaccines on the market. And injured patients are still compensated. None of this is hidden, new, or controversial in medicine.
@DonaldDucktator
December 5, 2025 at 11:41 pm
Another idiot with nothing to say.
@omarlocke4351
December 6, 2025 at 12:43 am
@Tomb-Wraithpolio didn’t disappear. the major source of polio is the polio vaccine
@omarlocke4351
December 6, 2025 at 12:43 am
@DonaldDucktatoryou listened.
@DonaldDucktator
December 6, 2025 at 1:01 am
@omarlocke4351 Another idiot spewing the same idiot script with no proof. Amazing.
@Ultrasoulviver
December 5, 2025 at 11:07 pm
Vaccines are absolutely a good thing with major diseases, like polio and measles but for common place generally mild infections like the flu I believe it’s better to let your immune system handle it naturally so it doesn’t become dependent on the weakened form of an infection to learn everything, that way incase we ever encounter a disease that we don’t have a vaccine for it still has experience battling full fledged diseases.
@RaymondPorter-w4y1g
December 6, 2025 at 8:55 am
“generally mild infections like the flu” <- Tell me you have no clue what you're talking about.
@CaseyRae67
December 5, 2025 at 11:51 pm
What a fantastic educator. I love seeing people who know what they are talking about, explain things in a way people can easily understand!
@robotron17
December 6, 2025 at 12:24 am
*CDC Director 2021:* “More than 97% of people getting hospitalized with Covid-19 now are unvaccinated, Walensky said.” – CNN
*CDC Director 2023:* “We still to this day do not have data on people who are coming into the hospitals who are vaccinated. That is a data point that we have lacked.”
@RaymondPorter-w4y1g
December 6, 2025 at 8:54 am
Stupid spam troll.
@DonaldDucktator
December 6, 2025 at 5:05 pm
Funny how all you losers have are quotes taken out of context, eh? Great way to let everyone know in 5 seconds exactly how brainwashed you are!
@kendragarbutt9408
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 am
I was vaccinated against pertussis (whooping cough) as a child and then was exposed and contracted it when I was in elementary school. I don’t remember much about it besides coughing so hard I couldn’t breathe in, leaving me turning blue in the face and gasping for breaths for days on days. I made it out with minimal damage, but I shudder to think how much WORSE it could be if I hadn’t received that vaccination. I am so grateful for vaccination programs and people like Dr. Offit who advocate with compassion and confidence.
@WeiberWithU
December 6, 2025 at 1:01 am
I’m not anti-vaccine; I just don’t trust that COVID-19 requires vaccination. Moreover, the vaccine development time was extremely short.
Three years ago, I (31y) tested positive. I took some cold medicines then recovering after a week! No my normal self without any aftereffects.
RFK is not anti-vaccine and that he’s the subject to new form of censorship. Stop spreading rumors.
@RaymondPorter-w4y1g
December 6, 2025 at 8:54 am
RFK is absolutely anti-vax. He does nothing but lie about vaccines, that makes him anti-vax.
@WeiberWithU
December 6, 2025 at 1:08 pm
@RaymondPorter-w4y1g Thanks for replying. Today Congress showed the devastating harm these vaccines are causing to people. Search for Stanley Plotkin’s 9-hour film; It is terrible factors are what RFK opposes—he’s protecting the people.
@WeiberWithU
December 6, 2025 at 1:20 pm
@RaymondPorter-w4y1gCongress showed that why RJK looks like an anti-vax.
Yt censorship is infuriating… It keeps blocking ppl telling the truth. I replyed you then deleted three times immediatly!!!!!!
Thank you for replaying me.
@krush231
December 6, 2025 at 1:02 am
This kid… 😅
@krush231
December 6, 2025 at 1:05 am
This is probably very true.
@krush231
December 6, 2025 at 1:22 am
Ok. So. I got covind when it first came out. It was difficult. I believe what this dude is saying.
@krush231
December 6, 2025 at 1:27 am
This is so brilliant.
@TheCrosshare
December 6, 2025 at 3:44 am
If you had to choose, would you rather have balloon A to hold, which when it pops, makes you super super sick, hospital o worse sick even. Or, would you like balloon B to hold, which when it pops, might cause you to feel sick for a few days?
@jetzeschaafsma1211
December 6, 2025 at 4:16 am
@3:10 I’m sorry what?
@loyopp
December 6, 2025 at 8:48 am
Thank you, @WIRED. This is the most important and benevolent PSA I’ve ever seen
@Mandapanda5642
December 6, 2025 at 11:05 am
They like to throw around the word natural, why do they think we’ve spent so much time and money on medical research. If we could fight them naturally overall, that wouldn’t have been the case.
@wheredidthepartygo
December 6, 2025 at 12:13 pm
Anti vaxxers actively want their kids to get sick so they can parade them around for sympathy and attention. Zero other explanation at this point
@ClaraSnapsmoore
December 6, 2025 at 2:01 pm
anti-vaxxers are absolute idiots. RFK Jr. is a disgusting loser.
@jellybeansbud3610
December 6, 2025 at 2:06 pm
One of my professors told us once that there’s more aluminium in a single can of tuna than all the childhood vaccines you get.
@DonaldDucktator
December 6, 2025 at 4:41 pm
He’s right, because here isn’t even any aluminum in vaccines. There are aluminum compounds, but anti-vaxxers don’t know the difference because they have crap for brains:
Aluminum –> ❌toxic
Aluminum + hydroxide = adjuvant –> ✅completely safe, found in vaccines
Chlorine –> ❌toxic
Chlorine + sodium = table salt –> ✅completely safe, found in your McDonalds fries
Arsenic –> ❌toxic
Arsenic + betatine –> ✅completely safe, found in your canned tuna
Oh and I was technically lying. NONE of these are toxic at extremely low amounts. That’s another thing anti-vaxxers never talk about which are the amounts. I had a guy tell me that even ONE atom of mercury is deadly 🤣 Bro is actually brainless:
Mercury –> ❌toxic in high amounts (mercury poisoning)
Mercury –> ✅completely safe in low amounts, found in breast milk
Water –> ❌toxic in high amounts (water intoxication)
Water –> ✅completely safe in low amounts (<3 liters/hr)
As you can see, there are no "safe" or "toxic" substances at all. It's all dependent on dosage. Anti-vaxxers will never ever ever understand this cuz they willfully ignorant and dum dum like a toddler 🤣
@QDolan
December 6, 2025 at 3:09 pm
Before my mother was born, her older sister died of polio. The vaccine worked so well that most young parents these days have no idea what polio even is because they have never seen it.
@Erast-Van-Doren
December 7, 2025 at 2:09 pm
The disease itself can be caused by many viruses, and it exists today. It’s called acute flaccid paralysis. The viruses are, per se, almost harmless; you need to damage the nervous system to actually get the disease. Exactly this was eliminated in the 1960-70s. DDT and co.
@greg5023
December 6, 2025 at 3:41 pm
In my elementary school the polio vaccine was administered in sugar cubes. When all the kids had been given their sugar cube, there were leftovers and the teachers let those who wanted more to eat all they wanted. I ate a tray of 20. Now I’m old AF and I look marvelous.
@melodiek5282
December 6, 2025 at 4:52 pm
I am a pharmacist. On the subject of “natural “ remedies, someone once told me that hemlock and horse sh*t are also natural.
@melissaanderson3238
December 6, 2025 at 5:01 pm
Thank you Dr. Offit for bringing this information to so many!!
@valeriorodrigues3351
December 6, 2025 at 6:27 pm
reminder to everyone to vaccine against diseases such as flu, cancer, or other
@Erast-Van-Doren
December 7, 2025 at 2:05 pm
Flu vax has a negative efficiency. Read the publications.
@DonaldDucktator
December 7, 2025 at 3:52 pm
@Erast-Van-Doren You mean what some idiot on Joe Rogan said?
@herbspatola1623
December 6, 2025 at 7:08 pm
Kudos. This is the best and most complete layman’s language explanation of viruses and vaccines that I’ve ever seen all in one place. Share this with anyone you know who is a vaccine skeptic.
@amberjunocrybabybeauty4526
December 6, 2025 at 7:36 pm
if your vaccine works, then why would i need to vaccinate myself so i don’t infect you? it works, right? you’ve protected yourself, right? 😂 this is so obviously skewed it’s crazy. anti vax for life
@conradsieber7883
December 6, 2025 at 8:48 pm
It’s’ called herd immunity. The more that are vaccinated the less virus is replicating and mutating in sick individuals. So the few who are not vaccinated are less likely to become ill and with fewer opportunities for mutation the less frequenly new vaccines need to be redeveloped. You know it’s not just about you as an individual but come to think of it don’t get vaccinated.
@DonaldDucktator
December 7, 2025 at 6:07 am
Hey look everyone another self-righteous scum trash bag
@Erast-Van-Doren
December 7, 2025 at 2:05 pm
@conradsieber7883 Herd immunity has never existed
@DonaldDucktator
December 7, 2025 at 4:01 pm
@Erast-Van-Doren Chairs don’t exist either. Jesus, is this all you trolls can do? Say literally anything and just put “doesn’t exist” after it, without any evidence? You should be a lawyer.
@pccougar895
December 6, 2025 at 8:40 pm
Thanks for setting the ignorant straight.
@HanMoP
December 6, 2025 at 8:48 pm
It’s strange how the spread of anti vaxxers correlate with the spread of SoMe and not with the spread of vaccine 60 years earlier.
@GorlWorldComments
December 6, 2025 at 8:50 pm
vaccines save everyone
@conradsieber7883
December 6, 2025 at 8:58 pm
There’s a lack of knowledge about health and medicine among the populace and health education in schools poorly taught doesn’t help.
@conradsieber7883
December 6, 2025 at 9:10 pm
I’m unsure about COVID and the Wuhan lab. Not thinking conspiracy just poor practice in keeping the SARS virus they were working on in not outside the lab. It’s still reasonable to hypothesize that COVID began with a breach of safety protocols at the Wuhan lab. You overstate the certainty that it did not.
@gardengal87
December 6, 2025 at 9:52 pm
I was forced to have my newborn get a hepatitis vax on the day of his birth bc it was state law bc of drug users. I was very angry about this even tho I am pro vaccines.
@tracylee4442
December 6, 2025 at 11:09 pm
This was a great compendium of info!
@TillTheLightTakesUs
December 7, 2025 at 5:31 am
Why the cut at 2:15 ? Don’t make anti vaxxers right. Don’t give them ammo.
@wahyuandrey
December 7, 2025 at 5:47 am
4 days ago? Should be 4 years ago.
@mytomanen_bre
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 am
Scientists: *this video*
Antivaxxers: nuh-uh!
Antivaxxers are selfish, foolish people and if it were not for their stupidity affecting the rest of us, I would be all for them dying out completely and remove them polluting the gene pool altogether and the population as a whole would be much better of for it. Change my mind.
@Erast-Van-Doren
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 pm
Maybe they know a little bit more than you do?
@mytomanen_bre
December 7, 2025 at 2:36 pm
@Erast-Van-Dorenyou mean the doctors and scientists that went to school for years and years? Yeah, I bet they know way more than me. That’s why I trust them.
@Erast-Van-Doren
December 7, 2025 at 2:44 pm
@mytomanen_bre Those are not objective; they have an interest.
@DonaldDucktator
December 7, 2025 at 3:50 pm
@Erast-Van-Doren Yeah so keep trusting some loser on Joe Rogan.
@maestroh2986
December 7, 2025 at 10:59 am
You can generally guess the person’s question/opinion based on the Reddit name they’ve chosen.
@bobreesjr9501
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 am
I don’t trust my Government or US Doctors..Government gives you the license to practice. Now we have social media…
@margotchurchill5593
December 7, 2025 at 12:29 pm
I taught medieval history for over 25 years. Very pro vaccine!
@Erast-Van-Doren
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 pm
Are you stupid?
@sife6550
December 7, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Check how much this guy is getting paid by Moderna or phizer
@WrestedAway
December 8, 2025 at 6:45 pm
You have Google so why don’t you check?
@mgregory2430
December 7, 2025 at 5:29 pm
This seems like such a dumb issue. Like not wearing seatbelts or breathairianism. Thanks USA.
@LiamNI
December 7, 2025 at 6:34 pm
17:57 – it wasn’t “the” Hunan market. Hunan is a province. It was the Wuhan market. Wuhan is the city (with the bio-lab).
@LiamNI
December 7, 2025 at 6:37 pm
Worth pointing out that the Wakefield dude (vaccine autism guy) had his medical licence revoked by the British Medical Board, so he’s no longer a doctor.
@camerontangen2957
December 7, 2025 at 8:03 pm
“I have spoken of the rich years when the rainfall was plentiful. But there were dry years too, and they put a terror on the valley. The water came in a thirty-year cycle. There would be five or six wet and wonderful years when there might be nineteen to twenty-five inches of rain, and the land would shout with grass. Then would come six or seven pretty good years of twelve to sixteen inches of rain. And then the dry years would come, and sometimes there would be only seven or eight inches of rain. The land dried up and the grasses headed out miserably a few inches high and great bare scabby places appeared in the valley. The live oaks got a crusty look and the sage-brush was gray. The land cracked and the springs dried up and the cattle listlessly nibbled dry twigs. Then the farmers and the ranchers would be filled with disgust for the Salinas Valley. The cows would grow thin and sometimes starve to death. People would have to haul water in barrels to their farms just for drinking. Some families would sell out for nearly nothing and move away. And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.” – John Steinbeck, East of Eden
@jonathanstarr3568
December 7, 2025 at 9:19 pm
Why can’t I hype this video YouTube?
@tygoneenogyt570
December 8, 2025 at 12:27 am
I wish that when he discussed Andrew Wakefield that he would have mentioned Wakefield was trying to sell separate vaccines for his own benefit. The guy made up the autism claim to increase sales of his own vaccines.
@mechlordx
December 8, 2025 at 4:50 am
There’s way too many sudden zoom-ins and outs, I was getting sick at points. Or just getting confused if he jumped to a new question and the editting went wrong
@xander9460
December 8, 2025 at 5:51 am
The ones who need to see this won’t. Thanks to the algorithm and the 1% who control the algorithm.
@DanielSilva-nr2cd
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 am
Boosters do feel like DLC tho.
@lcflngn
December 8, 2025 at 6:21 am
Mind blowing and forthright truth here. Dr Offit reminds me so much of my half-brothers’ and my own kids’ pediatrician, the amazing Dr Gruber. My mother was terrified of vaccines (1994, & she was always in the vanguard of every popular concern, not to mention medical magical thinking) so I asked Dr Gruber to explain why he felt the vaccines were important. He laid out the prevalence in our area of various diseases (a surprising amount.) He kindly and patiently explained what the vaccines did, and the percentages of potential side effects as well (quite low.) Clear mathematical reasoning, and of course we got the vaccines, and allayed my mom’s fears.
There’s nothing like patience and kindness in a pediatrician. These folks deserve all the kudos in the world.
@Mike-yr1sm
December 8, 2025 at 7:01 am
The only point I disagree with is RFK Jr., I am not convinced he actually believes the nonsense he is spewing.
@w96yia
December 8, 2025 at 8:17 am
I met RFK Jr at a party a few years ago way before he went into office.
Didnt get the chance to talk to him myself but listening in on the conversations he was having I can say he for sure believes what he says. lol.
@katherinerichardson2273
December 8, 2025 at 9:13 am
I never thought chicken pox was deadly I had it early 90’s before vaccine was out
@pedsdoctalk
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 am
Incredible QandA ! Thanks Dr. Offiit!
@timothyoo7
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 am
Its not necessarily a good thing that every far reaching corner of this country gets the internet. Its a way for tne not so bright to connect, as well as mis/dis information to spread.
@alesh-cz
December 8, 2025 at 9:51 am
the comment about stressing a child by 5 jabs is funny considering how many parents in the US cut off their baby boys’ foreskins…
@aydanlarge4602
December 8, 2025 at 11:30 am
okay but why do vaccines given to children in the first years of their life have micrograms of mercury in it?
@JiMMy-consumer-rights
December 8, 2025 at 12:55 pm
It’s a preservative. Which vaccines? I’m pretty sure juvenile vaccines no longer contain Thimerosal despite the lack of evidence of it being harmful in vaccines. Thimerosal (the compound containing mercury) is usually ethyl-mercury, which is safer than methyl-merc but still toxic at higher doses. Still, the trace amounts injected seem to be safe and are under the FDA’s treshold.
@billnye69
December 8, 2025 at 11:56 am
It’s amazing how some of the boomer generation can live through all those outbreaks and then still become anti-vac.
My Dad almost became a holocaust denier, even though he was born at the end of WWII and he and his mom survived the Germans blowing up their house while they were in it. The power of social media propaganda is wild.
@alexisdalmeida2147
December 8, 2025 at 12:14 pm
Medicine is so fascinating and incredible. RFK believes the same thing has trump. Believes in money and his ego
@jeffreygilbert4031
December 8, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Everyone knows the real # of vaccinations is 67
@WrestedAway
December 8, 2025 at 6:37 pm
Nah it’s 55.5
@TomMitchellNiftyEgg
December 8, 2025 at 2:51 pm
the herd of herd immunity is survivors. First time I heard the phrase was a tularemia outbreak in central Nevada area the size of Rhode Island. This geologist noted rabbits in abundance one field season then next season the “social distancing” was giant as perhaps +90% vanished. We only saw survivors the second season. Water too sparse for cattle to take advantage of all the new grass.
@happymcgoo
December 8, 2025 at 4:13 pm
The fact that nominally educated adults need this information show that our education system has failed us
@SaucyMuffins
December 8, 2025 at 4:14 pm
3:01 If they did that now, they’d say the little boy was a liar, that his parents are liars and that the whole family should be deleted. That’s how demented the anti-vaxxers are. And before anyone says they’re not, we watched you during COVID. Yes you are. You tried to hijack “my body my choice” for you bs.
@nathm055
December 8, 2025 at 5:45 pm
Lost me at “Wuhan Institute had nothing to do with the virus spreading…”
@Griever78
December 9, 2025 at 12:33 am
I got me a flu shot for the first time two months ago and my arm is still sore, and I lost full range of motion in my arm. 🙁
@DJ-ov2it
December 9, 2025 at 4:14 am
That sounds like whoever administered it used the syringe in the wrongest way possible.
@Griever78
December 9, 2025 at 5:49 am
@DJ-ov2itwill it heal eventually?
@yukaiqiao289
December 9, 2025 at 12:51 am
WHO investigated wuhan multiple times includding the virus lab. What was not allowed to be investigated? Fort detrick and the mysteriously dissapeared “vaping disease” around it which coincidently also present the symptom of white lungs.
@duncanwallace7760
December 9, 2025 at 1:33 am
Very interesting, thanks!
@DonedHiga
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 am
Polio and DDT
@DonedHiga
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 am
Do t Like this guy dont Trust this guy
@DJ-ov2it
December 9, 2025 at 4:13 am
great arguments, buster
@DonaldDucktator
December 9, 2025 at 4:26 am
Yeah everyone, trust Joe Rogan instead! Jesus how can anyone be this pathetic?
@iberiksoderblom
December 9, 2025 at 3:06 am
Another example that the quality of the US educational system is broken.
Idiocy above scientific knowledge.
@jeanmartin963
December 9, 2025 at 4:19 am
He relies more on conviction than on a scientific approach; he makes assertions rather than stating what is proven. It’s more public relations than science.
The only harmful thing he concedes is that the smallpox vaccine, which is no longer used, has side effects—how convenient.
To unmask this kind of person, a simple method is to look for glaring errors in their language.
“Aluminum is the third most abundant atom on Earth’s surface”. So this doctor hasn’t heard of C, H, O, and N, the four atoms at the basis of life, which are obviously much more abundant in the atmosphere, the oceans, and life itself. And then there’s Fe (iron) and Si (silicon).
@DonaldDucktator
December 9, 2025 at 4:24 am
What in the heck are you rambling about? Yes, aluminum is objectively the third most abundant element on Earth’s surface. Nobody cares about your baseless assertions without proof. Also you’re comparing elements in the geological record to elements found in the biosphere. That doesn’t sound like a “glaring error” to you?
@jeanmartin963
December 9, 2025 at 9:10 am
@DonaldDucktator The iron I mentioned is primarily found in the Earth’s core, yes, but silicon is a constituent of sand, which is common on the surface. Carbon is present in living organisms (living or fossilized), and CO2, oxygen in the air and water (and also living organisms), and hydrogen in water (and also living organisms). Aluminum is found mainly in bauxite.
Aluminum is neither the third most abundant element on the surface (that is O H Cl Na N Mg S Ca K Ar in that order )nor on the entire planet without atmosphere and ocean’s (Fe O Si Mg S Ni Ca Al in that order). To find it in third place, we must consider the Earth’s crust. This is not where humans live, because, let’s remember, this is a MD speaking, not a geologist; they live on the surface.
Humans live where life lives, and that is where nitrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen, and water are present. Because CHNO are the basis of human life, but also the basis of the life that constitutes human food, and the basis of photosynthesis to renew oxygen, and where chlorophyll exists to create the entire chain of life.
You can also understand that in the list of surface elements (O H Cl Na N Mg S Ca K Ar) several of them are in the composition of living things in addition to the basic structure of CHNO, such as K Na (muscular contraction), Mg and Ca (bones)… But also P , Fe (blood), Cu (aquatic life often uses Cu instead of Fe)… On the other hand, some atoms not abondant in the surface are not used in living things such as U, Hg, Pb, Au… and Al.
His reasoning is all the more foolish given that one of the most abundant elements on the surface (the real one and the crust) is uranium. Does that mean it’s an element we should consume?
Some isotopes are radiocatives.
@Vatsim2000
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 am
Tim Cook is a doctor now
@ukwerna
December 9, 2025 at 5:49 am
hahaha let me guess, amongst the x00K watching this, there is only 5 americans 😀
@grimmar80
December 9, 2025 at 6:20 am
Whichever stance you take in vaccines subject if you came here straight to comments you aredoing something wrong…
@pittepatderpirat
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 am
Und zack hat man Nano Bots in der Blutlaufbahn 💀
@dvdavid4677
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 am
Hoest of the most the am
@dvdavid4677
December 9, 2025 at 7:56 am
Im still fighting
@Abrikosmanden
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 am
RFK jr. and Andrew Wakefield belong in the dankest prison on earth for the damage they’ve caused to the whole world!
@Test-nj4fx
December 9, 2025 at 9:19 am
Why is this edited in such an aggressive way? The camera starts off with a nice medium shot that takes in the man at his computer. Then suddenly we see his full face for just a second, then he’s back out to a medium shot. Over and over again, like the editor and camera person are on overdrive. Do they not believe the man has interesting stuff to say? And that they have to make him interesting by all of these exploitative emotion grabbing techniques? It just made me feel vaguely motion sick.
@georgierodgers444
December 9, 2025 at 10:05 am
Incredible explanations. Thank you and congratulations on your career and research successes.
@danlewellyn6734
December 9, 2025 at 10:26 am
Love the answers but… Who is doing the zoom…unzoom…zoom…unzoom? It’s me nauseous.
@davrosthecreator1660
December 9, 2025 at 10:54 am
Why would anyone believe that the novel Covid virus that originated in Wuhan would be connected to the Wuhan novel covid virus lab that was studying the coronavirus at the time?
@crufflerdoug
December 9, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Thank you.
@clintbuhs7708
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 pm
Fantastic content, but good grief with the snap zoom every half a second. You’re making me dizzy here.
@kingdavid8657
December 9, 2025 at 3:49 pm
It’s like we got dumber and people forgot just how bad things were before vaccines. Like we have unlimited information at our finger tips and people still stupid. And I get it, as a black man I’m vaccine cautious, I’m not getting a vaccine unless white people get it first lol but I also understand that without vaccines life would be very different and not in a good way
@pakdiva21
December 9, 2025 at 4:03 pm
Unmistakable Philly guy calling it Wooder instead of Water
@whiterose7926
December 9, 2025 at 4:33 pm
jew doctor promoting vaccines
@DonaldDucktator
December 9, 2025 at 7:07 pm
Where is he wrong in this video you didn’t watch you worthless waste of human life?
@st4rdust86
December 9, 2025 at 5:54 pm
Joe Rogan caused a lot of those fears
@shokoshoko-b2r
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 pm
Here’s my theory about the whole vaccines and autism thing.
Most children get the first dose of the MMR vaccine at the age of 1. That’s when most children start speaking (in single words at least) and communicating a lot more with gestures. So if, up until then, a parent didn’t notice communication differences in their child (or was in denial about them), around when they get the MMR vaccince is when it becomes a lot more noticeable, and “the signs for autism start to appear”.
Also, when Andrew Wakefield wrote about those 8 children in 1998, autism was still more of a taboo topic than it is today, so people got scared a lot more easily because 8 was considered a lot…
And last but not least, CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION!!!
(I teach in a school for kids with severe autism, so I have a bunch of thoughts on this topic…)
Oh yeah, also, this may be controversial, but if you ask me HAVING AN AUTISTIC KID IS BETTER THAN HAVING A DEAD KID!!
@MushroomCap-i2e
December 10, 2025 at 12:29 pm
Not getting the vaccine does not mean your kid will die. Autism isn’t something we should want or be proud of. The definition of autism doesn’t mean different. It means your brain isn’t functioning the way it should.
And stop screaming in all caps. You’re an adult. You are an adult, aren’t you?
@shinygritsifter
December 10, 2025 at 12:54 am
Am I wrong thinking if American healthcare became a right to all its citizens, perhaps we’d respond more positively to vaccines?
@SusannaSaunders
December 10, 2025 at 4:57 am
10:40 A Child does not have max distress after only one shot just because their cortisol levels max out… There isn’t necessarily a correlation between cortisol levels and the degree of distress! That’s a false premise. So while you are right about extended exposure while delaying shots. Single or duel shots is less traumatising for a child psychologically because a child knows what’s coming the second and third times. The level of psychological distress is the same.
@SusannaSaunders
December 10, 2025 at 4:58 am
While I have a couple of issues with this video, on the whole it’s an excellent video. Well done. A much needed explainer.
@JK_JK_JK
December 10, 2025 at 6:58 am
What is the Covid-related mortality for non-elderly persons with no comorbidities?
@RossJohnson-johns224
December 10, 2025 at 7:45 am
I love listening to n to this man talk.
@AxelQC
December 10, 2025 at 8:28 am
People use aluminum foil every day in their kitchens, but somehow they freak out about microns in a vaccine that they get once???
@stepheng3985
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 am
Ever since residency I have had people come into the office doing a variation of this asking me about “this thing I heard on tiktok”. I say, without a shred of exaggeration, that everything I ever heard after that was not even remotely based in reality.
@celestegross6622
December 10, 2025 at 10:17 am
People who think it’s a conspiracy to sell vaccines obviously don’t pay attention to the thousands of free vaccine clinics across the country every year.
@MushroomCap-i2e
December 10, 2025 at 12:26 pm
Funny how I get recommended this video as I’m watching another video about
-how they ignored numerous studies that showed that vaccines don’t cause autism could not be ruled out
-how they ignored that the new mRNA vaccines were causing kidney damage and breathing problems in seniors
-how they ignored the vaccine injured in general
-the U.S. currently has a recommended vaccine schedule of 70+ vaccines for children
@billyoberholtzer23
December 10, 2025 at 12:39 pm
Read Gavin de Beckers new book not listening to this quack on the wired youtube channel
@jamesgrant
December 10, 2025 at 2:05 pm
Crazy that we even need this vid in the year 2025.
@mklite
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 pm
I just want randomized placebo controlled trials for vaccines. Is that too much to ask?
@Warcrime_Theorist
December 10, 2025 at 4:43 pm
I don t understand
@mklite
December 10, 2025 at 5:03 pm
@Warcrime_Theorist many of the older vaccines (MMR, DTaP, Polio, chickenpox, etc…) have never been studied with placebo based randomized controlled trials. Without this information, there is no way to definitively assert that a vaccine is safe and effective. In this age of confusion, bringing hard facts should be the role of scientists like Offit.
@Warcrime_Theorist
December 10, 2025 at 5:08 pm
@mklitewhat about new ones? We can t test them now these pandemics are gone…
@mklite
December 10, 2025 at 6:07 pm
@Warcrime_Theorist If the pandemic is gone, then this is a better environment to perform randomized controlled trials (RCT) because there is less risk of extending an active pandemic. What’s the downside of getting a random group of people, giving some the vaccine and some placebo shots, and then monitoring them afterwards?
@DonaldDucktator
December 10, 2025 at 6:28 pm
@mklite Why are you straight up just lying? Almost all of those you listed have been tested extensively with placebo-based randomized controlled trials. You can Google this stuff in 5 seconds. We do not need further testing to determine their safety or effectiveness. Polio has been almost completely eradicated since the administration of polio vaccines. There were 350,000 cases in 1988, compared to 100 in 2025. To say that’s a drastic difference would be the understatement of the century. Anyone who still doubts their effectiveness is either a liar or delusional or both.
@_Stroda
December 10, 2025 at 3:11 pm
Put simply, antivaxxers are traitors and, in the case of those denying their children vaccines, child abusers. Their ignorance, their fear, their stupidity – none of it excuses them.
@madswitzz
December 10, 2025 at 3:25 pm
Thank you for your dedication/service to our healthcare system. Thank you for educating us on medical topics that have turned political/personal. I hope the comment section is kind to you. -RDH
@MAurelius-h8s
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 pm
Perhaps asking pharmacologists would be better as very few doctors have any real understanding of biochemistry.
@Glerox
December 10, 2025 at 8:56 pm
Hmmmm im not sure the theory of Wuhan’s lab leak has been ruled out. He speaks like it’s a known fact.
@markhahn0
December 10, 2025 at 11:27 pm
This was amazingly good.
If there were only some way to ensure that every single person sees it. Preferably several times for some people.
@CastielWillow
December 11, 2025 at 12:12 am
Hi Dr Ofitt! It’s always cool to see someone I met when I worked for Terry Dermody out on the internet trying to help people understand this science. I “preached the vaccine gospel” to a LOT of reeeeeeeaally skeptical hippie moms after I had my kid, and I know I changed a few minds when I could say things like, I’ve met the people who create these vaccines. They aren’t getting rich and they aren’t serving drug companies. They are doctors and teachers. They stand for hours with pipettes in their hands. They visit places that don’t have the kind of public health privileges we have. I know these conversational, accessible videos make a difference. Thank you!
@Warcrime_Theorist
December 11, 2025 at 1:30 am
There s no thing such as anti V. It s just the government trying to make us believe some people are scared of them so that they will have less demand of them! Everything are connected! (人 •͈ᴗ•͈)
@ItsMe-fs4df
December 11, 2025 at 3:52 am
Great video and an amazing guest, this will be getting shared around
@WielkiKaleson
December 11, 2025 at 3:59 am
My son got 6-in-1 (DTaP + HBV + HiB + polio) vaccine with no visible side effects, so not sooo many shots.
@RattusMaga
December 11, 2025 at 4:20 am
Quick! Someone call RFK!
…. pathetic RattusMaga’s… they even claim ‘affordability’ is a hoax, says all you need to know about their level of intellect.
@mymemeplex
December 11, 2025 at 8:36 am
I don’t think people appreciate the magnitude of Dr. Offit’s contributions to the health of the world.
@sobal79
December 11, 2025 at 9:10 am
If vaccine are safe why there are no healthy children?
@rast
December 11, 2025 at 9:27 am
Thank you for spreading correct Information, thanks to all the Biologists and Chemists wo save so many lives. I’m glade there are still sane people around and not only RFKs.
@mikloskallo9046
December 11, 2025 at 9:31 am
Not to worry, your children will soon see all these diseases, anti-vaxxers won’t rest until they make smallpox great again…
@HweolRidda
December 11, 2025 at 10:30 am
His numbers of virus victims in the past are low. He speaks only of the USA.
@knyfe-wrench2015
December 11, 2025 at 11:59 am
I think more importantly when it comes to aluminum, the compound is what actually determines the chemical properties. Chlorine is a poisonous gas. Sodium is explosive when exposed to water. Put them together and you have table salt, a necessary ingredient for human life. If you don’t know the compound you don’t know anything. You can’t just say “it’s aluminum” and call it a day.
@mrr0cksor669
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 pm
give us one long term dobble blind rct. Just one. If it is what you say, 20 years + follow up easy peasy. But in all these years not one has been done. I wonder why?
@sandro5535
December 11, 2025 at 1:15 pm
Why did the covid shot cause so much blood clot and heart stops for young boys?
@angelborregocubero2241
December 11, 2025 at 1:25 pm
Amazing doctor. Thank you.
@vegancodesmith
December 11, 2025 at 1:34 pm
anyone remember h1n1 It seems to almost be skipped over
@evaunitr
December 11, 2025 at 1:37 pm
It should be known that, with regards to the lab leak question, Trump gutted our overseas virus detection/triage systems (that Obama created/expanded, can’t remember which, during his presidency) in his first term.
Every American COVID-related death, at least, should be on Trumps slumped shoulders.
@StanBlock-n1s
December 11, 2025 at 2:01 pm
Hi Paul. Great summaries. In this decade,
Just note that the most shots given at one visit — for up to date kids, is THREE. And that is only for 1 visit. Often only two shots are given at most visits.
We all use Pentacel and vaxelis and even pediarix which reduce jabs by half or more at the visit.
Please do not scare our families with tales of 5 shots. Ouch. Anti vaxxers do not need any more scare tactics.
You are the best.
Slb
@ThomasAT86
December 11, 2025 at 3:12 pm
I think most people don’t grasp the sheer damage that RFK Jr. is doing right now.
It’s not just directly via lower vaccine availability, waste of resources to change things like food colors with likely literally no impact overall, less regulations, and making foods more harmful by replacing PUFAs with high amounts of saturated fat and advertising fast food as “now healthy” – it’s also indirectly via communication, dramatically worsening beliefs that people have, their knowledge about science, and so forth. Anyone who ever followed when the media irresponsibly misrepresented study findings, knows that once that information is out, it takes orders of magnitude more “correct” information to make up for the damage, especially if it plays into the bias of the general population.
@MatejH_entrepreneur
December 11, 2025 at 3:31 pm
I don’t know why he didnt clarify the questions about the 72 vaccines and corrected the gentleman that he should have asked are there 72 doses. Cause the answer is yes, there are around 72 doses in the CDC schedule by the time you turn 18 and attend public schools. But we see how quickly he moved past that…. correct that its not 72 different vaccines, but the amount of doses also matters very much.
@peesincornfields
December 11, 2025 at 3:44 pm
I like this guy. He must be so frustrated with everything going on, as are most of us.
@onboxunboxing2387
December 11, 2025 at 8:02 pm
3:00 this dude is a loser
@onboxunboxing2387
December 11, 2025 at 8:02 pm
This dude is a sexist cuck