05/23/2022

Friends of Franz Podcast S1 E18: Vaccines and Variants with Dr. Calvin Sun

What was hoped to be a unified public health initiative to end an ongoing medical crisis became a divisive and bipartisan issue nationwide. Vaccine mandates were instituted across many states to combat the rise of the novel coronavirus variants and hopefully cease the spread of preexisting viral forms. With the placement of mandates, especially within the spheres of healthcare professions, efforts to uphold this decision were met with degrees of resistance and hesitancy. According to the New York Times, a staggering 37,000 healthcare workers have left their jobs as a result of the vaccine mandates. How has this exodus affected the American healthcare system that was already struck on its knees with burnout and short staffing?

In this episode, we tackle these topics of vaccine mandates and rising variants back in the summer of 2021 with "The Monsoon Diaries" travel agency founder & CEO, activist, public keynote speaker, medical contributor to national television’s biggest news channels, circulating NYC Emergency Medicine physician, and a great friend of mine: Dr. Calvin Sun. Dr. Sun stood as the first-hand reporter of the COVID-19 pandemic during its Spring 2020 spike in New York City emergency rooms.

Are mask and vaccine mandates ethical and/or constitutional? How has the safety of the vaccines against COVID-19 been proven in vivo since their dissemination? Where do viral variants actually come from: the vaccinated or the unvaccinated? How does natural immunity fare with inoculation? As divisive and controversial as these questions are, we fulfill the goal of this series: providing evidence-based and first-hand information that seeks to defy life-harming misinformation across social media.