“I like vaccines a lot. I’m very skeptical of therapeutics, because I like vaccines because they use the body’s natural immune defenses and train them, and I trust the body. Therapeutics try to, the treatments try to circumvent what the body does, try to hack around it, and historically, vaccines have a much better idea of preventing disease than therapeutics do about preventing, or treating, just historically. So the pretest probability of a therapeutic working is much, much lower than a good vaccine. So that’s my bias. I also am biased because throughout the pandemic I’ve been dealing with a lot of misinformation on both sides of the political aisle, but it’s, for some reason, the conservative side of the misinformation aisle has been really, really wacky. So you have America’s Frontline Docs with the demon sperm lady talking about hydroxychloroquine, and all of that, and I’ve had to go and debunk these things over the course of the pandemic, and it’s getting tiresome for me.”
