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The American public should understand that there is a risk, but it's an exceedingly rare risk, by basically putting a scarlet letter on this vaccine, by scaring people about this vaccine, by not really trusting them to understand the concept of relative risk, we may have done more harm than good, and there are people now who won't get a vaccine because this is the vaccine they would have gotten.

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Paul Offit

Paul Offit

Paul A. Offit is an American pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases and an expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology.

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