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It’s an honor to bring you this interview with the esteemed Dr. Retsef Levi, PhD. He’s a headline-making MIT professor of operations research and a current member of the CDC’s ACIP committee, the group that advises vaccine policy in the United States. With a background in risk analysis, data modeling, and large-scale health systems, his hard-facts perspective is why this conversation matters so much to me.
We discuss:
- Myocarditis risk from COVID vaccines vs. infection
- Vaccine effects on pregnancy
- Are booster shots necessary? A critical look
- Alarming rise in cardiac arrest calls linked to vaccinations
- Navigating the publishing minefield of vaccine research
- The demand for diverse expertise in shaping vaccine policies
- Personalized risk assessments: the future of vaccination
- Urgent call for deeper investigations into vaccine safety signals and support for the injured
Additionally, we touch on flu vaccines, federal officials/ media’s use of fear as a motivator, low-quality data driving public health policy, and the long-term consequences of prioritizing speed over individualized risk assessment.
This conversation is about science, data, ethics, and restoring trust. It is NOT about politics; politics should play no role in medicine and public health.
If you care about evidence-based decision-making, transparency, and honest dialogue, this is a must-watch!
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Welcome + who Retsef Levi is
01:06 - Retsef’s background at MIT + why he started looking at vaccines
03:18 - Boosters, myocarditis concerns, and why his focus shifted
05:21 - Joining CDC’s ACIP and why risk modeling matters
07:50 - The Israel EMS cardiac arrest paper - how it started
10:25 - What myocarditis can look like and why it can be missed
12:48 - Findings: EMS cardiac arrest calls rose and why the signal mattered
15:48 - Retraction attempts and the fight to keep the paper published
20:48 - Why many people never heard about the study
22:25 - How the US vaccine schedule differs from other countries
26:16 - Why vaccine debate is uniquely polarized
30:09 - Why he didn’t vaccinate his kids for COVID + their ages
33:14 - Risk-based approach: which vaccines he sees as most important
35:19 - What he’d do for a healthy newborn - Denmark schedule comparison
37:05 - Immune system + neurodevelopment research that needs more study
40:42 - Vaccines and transmission - using polio as an example
42:53 - Flu vaccine: repeated dosing, immune imprinting, and limitations
51:12 - Flu shot mandates in schools
51:57 - Why he believes vaccine mandates are unethical + harms trust
55:49 - COVID vaccine and pregnancy: what his team studied
57:06 - Healthy vaccine bias and why pregnancy studies can mislead
59:47 - Israel data model method: observed vs expected fetal loss
01:03:03 - Findings: higher fetal loss signal in early pregnancy
01:06:39 - Lessons from the last five years + what should change
01:08:14 - Vaccine-injured patients: ethics, trust, and accountability
01:10:37 - Closing thoughts + subscribe
