In this episode, host Trenton Garmon interviews John Todd about the pandemic and the upcoming vaccines.
Transcript
Trenton Garmon 0:13
welcome welcome welcome welcome one Welcome all to G file radio your civil rights news and legal docket report. Coming to you Dave from I Heart Radio studios. This is Trenton Garman attorney and I've got a guest co host here with me. JOHN wants to say hello, John Todd.
John Todd 0:36
Welcome to news ready 1055 w e RC on this beautiful Saturday afternoon.
How fun is it to be discussing things that are relevant civil rights issues and cases that have been filed that pertain to your everyday life. Of course, public interest is something near and dear to my heart as an attorney, we're gonna be talking today about a very hot topic that involves not just big government, but big pharma. And the question kind of boils down to this young, are you gonna take the COVID-19 vaccine?
I don't know. I don't know if I'm gonna take it or not. Because I always get my flu shot. So it seems like a natural thing, I should want it. But at the same time, it's a brand new thing. I don't know if I'm excited about putting a brand new thing in me right off the bat, maybe let a few other people do it first, you know,
so you're saying brand new was rushed through, I guess five times faster. Trump has boasted about months. And that's a good thing or a bad thing. But they broke record speed having to prove before any other drug really 20% of the time period for vaccine has been proved before. So you're saying you don't know. But you take your annual and you take your seasonal shots as recommended. Is that correct?
Absolutely. I always do. I do believe in vaccines. I do think that they work. I but I at the same time. I know they're made by man and man makes mistakes. So I'm not I don't do it blindly.
Okay. Well, the net, the New England Journal for medicines, but what they're referring to is the vaccine nationalism, which is a real big push. We've gone quarter this article from 200 vaccine candidate companies down to five, we've had 300 million order doses ordered. Court operation warp speed. That's the goal. 150 have been paid for. So how many Americans we have at this time? Yeah.
Ah, pretty close to 300,000 plus four, well, plus 400
million, I believe you mean three out of eight? I
think we're over. Yeah, sorry. Yeah. Nice to get population. Jefferson County. Yeah. Yeah, about 300 million.
So we're about to see some major shifts and changes in public health and how its administered. So if you were to take the vaccine, john, would you do it at a private clinic? Or would you be willing to go to lock a checkpoint, a military checkpoint? If those are put out?
I'm hoping we don't have to do it at military checkpoints. I hope it doesn't come to that in this country. But you know, I probably do it just like I did a flu shot and I go down to my local pharmacy, and I'd have the pharmacist to give it to me in my arm if that's how its administered. The big five companies
modera Oxford University working with S 10, Zurich, Johnson and Johnson, Merck and Pfizer are the ones that have been approved, those four, get a $2.2 billion contract that's gone out. So these companies have a huge interest in the question really boils down to, do you have informed consent to take the vaccine? If you were to john, do Google and internet research on the COVID-19 vaccine? What would be your thoughts about finding good adequate material?
Well, you definitely want stuff that comes from say, the, the FDA or somebody, not just the company because the company can always toot their own horn. So I would much rather have something from somebody who is at least they seem like they're independent.
Do you think the companies are independent enough to have the 20% record speed? Is that for you something that's concerning? Are you thinking they probably are independent enough that the studies are trustworthy? Do you t