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Welcome to the JOWMA Preventive Health Podcast, hosted by the Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association. We provide you with up-to-date information on health topics geared towards the Orthodox Jewish community. This podcast content is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice or as a substitute for the medical advice of a physician. Federal Drug Administration Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee and a founding advisory board member of the Autism Science Foundation and the Foundation for Vaccine Research, a member of the Institute of Medicine, and co-editor of the foremost vaccine text, Vaccines. He is a recipient of rewards awards that are just too many for me to list, just page of them, literally. I'm going to skip them. He is also the author of eight medical narratives, eight books, which have received numerous awards. I'm not going received numerous awards. I'm not going to list all eight of them. I will mention the two most recent, which are Bad Advice or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information, 2018, and You Bet Your Life from Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, The Long and Risky History of Medical Innovations, from 2021. Welcome, Dr. Offit. Thank you so much for joining me today. Thank you for asking me. It's my pleasure. Oh, it is such an incredible honor, as I explained to you. Um I want to talk, to begin with, about your book, You Bet
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- 0:04Welcome to the JOWMA Preventive Health Podcast, hosted by the Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association. We…
- 4:50COVID, and I think we forget how scary it was when it first started. And I…
- 8:54or this guy Didier Raoult at uh in France as being a wonder drug for this…
- 12:59Um we I think Dr. Fauci was I mean, remember it that people thought that there…
- 17:02Terrible word. Breakthrough implies failure. This this wasn't a failure. This was a success and and…
- 21:06choice a choice that is a choice to do something. It's a choice to put yourself…
- 25:10that cause hundreds of thousands people to be hospitalized and tens of thousands to die every…
- 29:14original vaccine was to protect the against the ancestral strain, right? The Wuhan one strain. That's…
- 33:17Um and have respect for that. Stay home if you can. If you can't stay home,…
- 37:26that vaccine who are going to develop autism because the MMR vaccine is only designed to…
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