During the COVID pandemic, a vaccine safety monitoring system misled the American public.
COVID vaccines were first available in December 2020, but one phrase used to describe an early outbreak confused the public about what COVID vaccines could or couldn’t do: Breakthrough Infections.
In this episode of Beyond the Noise, Dr. Paul Offit discusses how during the early stages of the COVID pandemic, both the CDC and FDA used certain words or phrases that inadvertently frightened or confused the American public.
In this episode of Beyond the Noise, Dr. Paul Offit discusses the 13 November 2023 meeting held by Marjorie Taylor Greene (R, Georgia) to discuss COVID vaccine safety.
In this episode of Beyond the Noise, Dr. Paul Offit discusses whether scientists should openly debate vaccine policies, or does that only confuse the American public and embolden anti-vaccine activists.
In this episode of Beyond the Noise, Dr. Paul Offit discusses the CDC recommendation on 12 September 2023 of a booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine for everyone over 6 months of age.
Paul discusses RFK Jr’s statement that pharmaceutical companies “never do placebo-controlled trials.”
Paul explains the decision on June 15th 2023 by an FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee to pick the strain for “this year’s” SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, and who it is recommended for.
In this episode of Beyond the Noise, Dr. Paul Offit discusses a recent meeting of experts at the White House that raised an ominous possibility.
In the third episode of Beyond the Noise, Dr. Paul Offit answers the question of whether we still need COVID-19 vaccine mandates.