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Mikhail Varshavski: “I disagree with [the CDC's] messaging about recommending…”

Featuring: Mikhail Varshavski, Family Medicine Physician, YouTuber, Internet Personality, Professional Boxer | New Jersey

Doctor Mike's RFK Jr. Problem is Getting Worse

Published August 12, 2025 | Video Starts at 54:11

So much so that at the time, the CDC director wanted to come on my podcast to talk about Boosters and vaccines in general. And I said, look, I'm open to having you on, but I disagree with [the CDC's] messaging about recommending boosters universally for everyone. I don't think that's the right piece of advice. And they actually scrubbed coming on my show as a result of that. Oh, wow. So also outdoor transmission of the virus mid pandemic. (54:11–54:17)

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Asserts disagreement with the CDC's universal booster recommendation.

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“They cut a half a billion dollars worth of research for MRNA vaccines, which can potentially be used to prevent cancer.”
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“There is a new biotech company in China that has been giving a billion dollars to the development of MRNA vaccines.”
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“The measles outbreak is the biggest that we've had in 30 years.”
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“Younger males had higher rates of myocarditis after getting a vaccine.”
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“By the year 2000, almost all childhood vaccines were not with dimerosal. We removed it just to be safe. Even though we saw no evidence of…”
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“Kevin Hall's research on the Biggest Loser study showed that people who lost weight regained it because their basal metabolic rate dropped…”
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“Those who continued exercising the most [after the Biggest Loser study] had the biggest cuts to their metabolic rate.”
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“Vaccines are not the problem, they're the solution. And they've been doing great things.”
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“With this administration, they have come in raising all of these flags on issues that are important... but they just talk about them and…”
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“Jay Bhattacharya Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who's in charge of NIH, recently just came out and said the reason why the MRNA platform can't work…”
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“The MRNA platform has gotten so much popularity...for a universal upper respiratory virus vaccine.”
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“Labs are being shut down. That takes time.”
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“To put that all together is going to take at the very least 10 years.”
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“Secretary Kennedy came in and there was some research being done by Kevin Hall that perhaps disagreed with what RFK believes... they start…”
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“We lost Kevin Hall as an NIH researcher. We lost his lab, one of the few labs that is actually doing the research that we need to understand…”
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“In 2017, I wrote an article for the American Academy of Family Physicians website where I said that the absence of evidence-based docs…”
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“Luckily, at the time, President Trump was very much pro the vaccine. He was celebrating the MRNA platform, he called it his vaccine…”
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“Still losing a ton of lives, still losing people to disease simply because of vaccine hesitancy due to misinformation.”
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“We still don't have buy-in from these well-trained experts to be on social media.”
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“Operation Warp Speed was a conservative achievement.”
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“Right now the way the political landscape has shifted is it's warped into an alternate reality where facts don't matter.”
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“There's a tremendous death of expertise happening where people are able to use ChatGPT or Grok or one of these LLMs and think that they know…”
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“There are criticisms of our healthcare system. There are major problems. There needs to be seismic shifts happening across the board in…”
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“If whether it's a Republican or a Democrat or an Independent makes the ability to produce thyroid hormone too expensive or so much…”
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“There are a lot of people in the academic space especially that believe this current administration is creating havoc and they need to put…”
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“We're seeing it in terms of when Kevin Hall was doing his research, they wouldn't let him do a media interview at all.”
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“And then when he said, what about just email questions? And they said, well, as long as we review them. And upon reviewing them, they added…”
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“I'm currently a practicing doctor and things are in chaos.”
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“There's also self-censorship and fear happening across congresspeople, judges, people that are being threatened by a fear of a primary fear…”
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“The fact that we've lost this funding for MRNA research is gonna cost lives.”
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“The fact that [Secretary Kennedy is] supporting vaccine hesitancy with the MMR vaccine, that's gonna cost people lives.”
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“The video [on Jubilee] has over 10 million views. I believe it's their third or fourth most watched episode.”
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“There are going to be people who are hurt by vaccines and we need to admit that and have these conversations openly.”
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“Vaccines don't cause autism.”
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“Vaccines are given to healthy people to prevent future problems, so the risk-benefit needs to drastically favor the benefit.”
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“We've created a vaccine Adverse Reporting Event system, vaers, to track [vaccine side effects].”
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“We also have the Vaccine Safety Data Net that tracks vaccines across millions of doses.”
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“Informed consent is the most important part of practicing good medicine.”
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“In 2020, going into 2021, hospitals were being overwhelmed, we were having to reschedule surgeries.”
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“Biden made some missteps saying that boosters were gonna be better than they were over promising them.”
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“The CDC director wanted to come on my podcast to talk about Boosters and vaccines in general.”
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“We didn't see transmission during [protests].”
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“Public health messaging was a bit antiquated. It was parental in nature.”
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“We need to stop putting people in positions of power that don't have the expertise that's necessary for running these administrations.”
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“There hasn't been anything that has supported public health screening. There hasn't been anything to support family physicians, mid level…”
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“There are certain individuals who have a level of food noise that does not even make sense to the average person.”
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“If you can give one of these medications to that individual, silence the food noise, suddenly they're better shape from a physical…”
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“What the medication does is it slows the transport of food, which then alters your biochemistry to make you feel fuller, therefore not as…”
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“There's even been some promise for these medications in working for certain substance abuse disorders specifically focused with alcoholism.”
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“When you take someone and you help cut their excess body fat percentage by 10, 20% over the course of time slowly, because you don't want to…”
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“There's a lot of actually legalities that are happening here with compounded semaglutide, which is the main ingredient in these GLP1…”
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“Ozempic and Wegovy, for example, they're medications that are used for slightly different indications. Wegovy is a weight loss medication…”
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“There's absolutely availability issues still happening.”
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“There are websites that are profiting from it that are not doing it in the correct, reasonable way, where they just get a prescription, it…”
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“There's definitely more supply because there's been more demand. But right now, with the way that our country is as a whole, from a tariff…”
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“Right now, there's, like, hormone clinics that are coming out all over the place, popping up left, right and center that are just mass…”
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“There's these drips that promise the fountain of youth, and it is not proven. It is a way people use to sell you a questionable intervention…”
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“We can help patients lose weight. It's the keeping the weight off that's the hard part.”
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“The New York Times reported inaccurately about [Kevin Hall's] study, believing metabolism was damaged from losing weight and exercising.”
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“People that kept exercising after [the Biggest Loser] study who had the biggest drop in their metabolic rate also were able to hold off…”
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“Kevin Hall started talking about how ultra processed food and the consumption of ultra processed food has increased the amount of calories…”
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“Ultra processed food stores better. It's cheaper. So perhaps there is a way to have an ultra processed rich diet for people who are living…”
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“There are values to AI where it is better than us. I mean, when it can look at a scan and look at pixels that our eyes can't catch, that's a…”
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“Elon Musk has grok, which if you ask GROK what percentage of health claims that Secretary Kennedy makes are untrue, it says the majority of…”
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“It's scary because what's scary to me about AI is that it's privately owned.”
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“There's just tremendous hypocrisy. I mean, there's currently an environmental lawyer running a health agency in an administration that…”
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“AI can have the biggest net benefit... helping me pick which insurance company is the best for my situation.”
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“My patients don't have to jump through hoops for a prior authorization to get a CAT scan.”
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“I'm concerned that because no legit companies are making [Wi-Fi repeaters]... there's some kind of spy devices.”
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“I don't like giving my password to some random device of a no name company that is connected to the web.”
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“Some people are getting leg lengthening surgeries and stuff.”
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