EP #76 - The Search for a COVID-19 Vaccine - Paul Offit

Today, we have a discussion of COVID-19 and vaccines with Dr. Paul Offit.

Paul Offit is a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases and an expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine that has been credited with saving hundreds of lives every day. Offit is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He has been a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Offit is a board member of Every Child by Two and a founding board member of the Autism Science Foundation (ASF). His most recent book is Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far. Also author of Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information.  He is also the author of Pandora’s Lab, and many other books including: The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to Today’s Growing Vaccine Crisis; and Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All (Basic Books, 2011), which was selected by Kirkus Reviews and Booklist as one of the best non-fiction books of the year.