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Prepared for Our Anti-Vax 2026? | First Draft with Susan Demas & Paul Offit
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41:31Now PlayingIn this Christmas Eve edition of First Draft, Lincoln Square Executive Editor Susan J. Demas talks to Dr. Paul Offit, a pediatrician who directs the Vaccine Education Center and serves as an attending physician in Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He’s the co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine who’s authored more than 160 papers and 11 books and has served on FDA and CDC advisory committees.
So naturally, Trump’s HHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., this year made sure to remove Dr. Offit from the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) — which is central to evaluating vaccine safety and efficacy data for approval.
That’s what happens when one of the most prominent anti-vaxxers in America is now in charge of national health policy.
We saw conspiracy theories explode during the COVID pandemic. But RFK Jr. and others have been laying the groundwork for years. There’s a “debate me, bro” mentality in the anti-vax movement. They consider it a gotcha moment when physicians and epidemiologists won’t engage in bad-faith discussions with them. But Dr. Offit argues that vaccine safety isn’t something you “debate” — it’s something you prove through evidence. What do we do when many Americans would rather trust their favorite celebrity than scientists?
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