And what I'm trying to do at the agency is return it to gold standard science, make sure that anything that we tell the public, we tell the public what we know and what we don't know. And, you know, One of the things that we saw during COVID is that the government was overreaching in its efforts to persuade the public to get vaccinated. And they were saying things that were not always true. And public health agencies should never do that. There are many other countries that actually have higher vaccination rates than ours where there are no mandates. (02:24–02:40)
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Asserts that the government overreached in persuading the public to get vaccinated during COVID.
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