“Fellow physician here Bapu. I have enjoyed your program a lot, but was very surprised you did not push back at all on Ashish Jha and the problem so many of us have with his Covid messaging. I’m quite sure you are aware of Dr Vinay Prasad’s frustration with Jha - why didn’t you ask about some of his specific concerns? It was difficult to listen to Jha humble-brag about how in demand he was during the pandemic. Ugh. How can he say that the authorization for the Covid boosters was solely the decision of the FDA when it is a fact that the White House put enough pressure on the FDA that senior officials resigned in protest? If he is as smart and amazing as you made him sound then he surely knows he is being dishonest with the American public when he, among other things, makes no mention of our valid Covid vaccine cardiac concerns in young men. He sounds like a slick drug rep, not like the normal physicians with whom I trained and practice. The reason why the uptake on the bivalent shot is so low is because most of the American people are smart and know when they aren’t getting the full story. His obvious lack of intellectual honesty is contributing to the distrust Americans have for public health authorities. If you truly don’t see that then you have lost some of your economist objectivity.”
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United States of America ·
11/26/22