About this episode

The episode discusses the hypocrisy of public health officials during COVID, new drug developments, and various health controversies.

Former New York public health official Jay Varma's hypocritical sex parties during COVID, why we refuse to talk to most reporters, VP’s take on the new schizophrenia drug, the 10 year anniversary of VP’s PARADIGM-HF heart failure drug trial smackdown, how much an MD/PhD with 100 years of training makes when they finally finish school, Marty’s new book, a Stanford and Emory conference where VP is speaking on public health controversies, and much more! Subscribe to The VPZD Show on your favorite podcast app. Check out VP's Substack Vinay Prasad's Observations and Thoughts as well as Sensible Medicine. Here's all our previous episodes together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: Vinay Prasad, Zubin Damania

Topics covered

• public health
• COVID-19
• schizophrenia drug
• heart failure
• medical training
• health controversies

Keywords

• public health
• COVID
• schizophrenia
• heart failure
• medical training
• Jay Varma
• Vinay Prasad
• Zubin Damania

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Stanford, Emory

Books & works: Marty’s new book

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