We don't know the full extent of what the side effects of the COVID vaccines are.

Sharyl Attkisson: "But pretty early on, I interviewed the guys, I'll call them, at Fort Detrick, who were part of helping develop the vaccines. And one of them said, I believe I have this on camera, I put on my show, Full Measure, RNA vaccines don't last very long and don't work very well. Stuck in my head. You said very early on, before the vaccines were out, that you anticipated they would not work for all that long, or they would not last for all that long, and boosters would be needed.
And yet it seemed like everybody was surprised when it was reported that after a certain period of months, immunity was waning for people. So I think scientists weren't sure, but when I looked at the immune responses that were being generated by the vaccines, they were very impressive short term, but that long lasting immunity was not generated with just one shot. So needing multiple shots was, in my opinion, what would be needed to actually achieve some sort of long lasting effect.
And he said, if they did, we'd have a vaccine for AIDS, which is an RNA virus, and we've been trying for 50 years. So he also, he said a lot of things that I took to heart that he proved to be correct about in retrospect. For those who would choose to get a vaccine when it ultimately came out, they would need a booster quickly because they don't last very long, don't work very well. He said, he anticipated healthy people wouldn't need the vaccine, children don't need the vaccine. He said all of these things.
And it really stuck in my mind. That proved guidance for me in how I handled my treatment of COVID, which my treatment was I lived my normal life, which he advised. So one little sub story. We're at Fort Detrick, which is the biodefense of the military and all that. And my producer notices they're not masking or social distancing on the front end when everybody was starting to do this. And at the end, my producer says to him, the head virologist there, I noticed you're not masking or social distancing. Why? And he said, well, I assume I've already had it. And if I haven't, I'm not concerned. I'm healthy. My kids are healthy. He said, I wouldn't want my father to get it. My father's, you know, elderly and not, he's in frail health. But that said a lot to me. And I said a lot of stuff to him off camera, like people are washing their groceries. Shouldn't we get a little exposure? He's like, yes, absolutely. So that was my guidance. So yeah, I was cautious based on that guidance that when the vaccine came out, how effective would it really be?
What would be the side effects? Because you have to balance, do I really need it? And what is the risk? And yeah, the calculus seemed to be off from the start. People don't understand. Just because you don't have a side effect that day, some people do. Or within a week, side effects from medicine's side to say can happen months or years later. We don't know the full extent of what the side effects of the COVID vaccines are."