Dr. Adam Ratner

I think we all got to see the evolution of a pandemic, which is something I had never seen before. We also got to see an incredible scientific triumph, which was the development of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. And I think back to how I felt when, you know, those first trials of the mRNA vaccines came out and they were enormously effective against hospitalization and disease. And they still are.

And they were highly effective against catching COVID-19. Although that effect is limited in time, which we didn't know then, and we didn't know then that boosters would be necessary. But there was such a feeling of relief when I saw those data. And I remember the moment I got my first dose of the mRNA vaccine. I remember the day my wife got hers. I cried.

And they were highly effective against catching COVID-19. Although that effect is limited in time, which we didn't know then, and we didn't know then that boosters would be necessary. But there was such a feeling of relief when I saw those data. And I remember the moment I got my first dose of the mRNA vaccine. I remember the day my wife got hers. I cried.

And they were highly effective against catching COVID-19. Although that effect is limited in time, which we didn't know then, and we didn't know then that boosters would be necessary. But there was such a feeling of relief when I saw those data. And I remember the moment I got my first dose of the mRNA vaccine. I remember the day my wife got hers. I cried.

I cried when my daughter got hers because... I felt like we had won. Like I felt like science had saved us. Vaccine science had saved us. And in the back of my mind, I thought, this is the end of the anti-vaccine movement. Like how do they possibly recover from everyone in the world seeing what we can do?

I cried when my daughter got hers because... I felt like we had won. Like I felt like science had saved us. Vaccine science had saved us. And in the back of my mind, I thought, this is the end of the anti-vaccine movement. Like how do they possibly recover from everyone in the world seeing what we can do?

I cried when my daughter got hers because... I felt like we had won. Like I felt like science had saved us. Vaccine science had saved us. And in the back of my mind, I thought, this is the end of the anti-vaccine movement. Like how do they possibly recover from everyone in the world seeing what we can do?

And, of course, looking back now, five years after the start of the pandemic, I was naive and I was wrong at that time about how the anti-vaccine movement would respond to the COVID-19 vaccines and where we would be just a few years later.

And, of course, looking back now, five years after the start of the pandemic, I was naive and I was wrong at that time about how the anti-vaccine movement would respond to the COVID-19 vaccines and where we would be just a few years later.

And, of course, looking back now, five years after the start of the pandemic, I was naive and I was wrong at that time about how the anti-vaccine movement would respond to the COVID-19 vaccines and where we would be just a few years later.

To start, I want to be clear that my comments about RFK and about everything that we talk about today are my personal opinion and aren't meant to represent the institutions I work for or anyone else I'm affiliated with. The It's very disconcerting.

To start, I want to be clear that my comments about RFK and about everything that we talk about today are my personal opinion and aren't meant to represent the institutions I work for or anyone else I'm affiliated with. The It's very disconcerting.

To start, I want to be clear that my comments about RFK and about everything that we talk about today are my personal opinion and aren't meant to represent the institutions I work for or anyone else I'm affiliated with. The It's very disconcerting.

It's very disturbing that someone who has spent so much of his career trying to undermine confidence in vaccines, trying to tear down the infrastructure that approves and recommends vaccines, has the potential to be in a position of power over the infrastructure that has— those goals.

It's very disturbing that someone who has spent so much of his career trying to undermine confidence in vaccines, trying to tear down the infrastructure that approves and recommends vaccines, has the potential to be in a position of power over the infrastructure that has— those goals.

It's very disturbing that someone who has spent so much of his career trying to undermine confidence in vaccines, trying to tear down the infrastructure that approves and recommends vaccines, has the potential to be in a position of power over the infrastructure that has— those goals.

I worry about vaccine availability in the United States, but more than that, I worry about vaccine confidence, which many of us have worked for years and years and years to build. And as mentors of mine have said many times over the years, it is much easier to scare people than to unscare them.

I worry about vaccine availability in the United States, but more than that, I worry about vaccine confidence, which many of us have worked for years and years and years to build. And as mentors of mine have said many times over the years, it is much easier to scare people than to unscare them.

I worry about vaccine availability in the United States, but more than that, I worry about vaccine confidence, which many of us have worked for years and years and years to build. And as mentors of mine have said many times over the years, it is much easier to scare people than to unscare them.

And I think that just by elevating anti-vaccine views in the guise of RFK, I think that we risk a crisis in vaccine confidence in the U.S.,