Dr. Jeffrey Kopin: How long does the flu typically last?

This one says, "I'm a big proponent of vaccines.

How was it that vaccines I got 60 years ago, polio, measles, et cetera, are still effective today?" I presume that's true, that they still are, Doctor?

Yeah, for those b- for those diseases, yeah.

I mean, it's just amazing.

I mean, it really speaks to the brilliance of the scientists that devised these vaccines.

It's...

You know, John, we've talked about polio before.

You know, I'm old enough to remember when, when there were people who had active polio, and we were among the first to receive the polio vaccine, and just, it, the, it's extraordinary, and it still gives protection after all these years.

Uh, it's, it's just amazing.

Measles vaccine is another good example of that.

You get your measles vaccine 50 years ago, you're good to go today.

I mean, it's j- it's just extraordinary, the technology of the vaccine together with the human, human immune system.

Yeah, right.

Just something very special.

Well, read, um, Everything You Know Is Tuberculosis by John Green, and appreciate how, [laughs] by our standards today, relatively simple technology is saving countless millions of people.

You know what I was also thinking about, Doctor, was, uh, I had some dental work done yesterday.

Love my dentist, but they said take some Tylenol and some ibuprofen, and I did, because it did start to hurt after a while, and I was just amazed at how effective that is.

I could literally feel after a half hour the pain just dissipating from my mouth, and I thought how lucky we are to have the technology or the pharmacology that we have these days.

Yeah.

Once I asked Thomas Jefferson, one of our listeners did, on stage, "If you'd bring anything from the modern era back to the 18th century, what would it be?" And without missing a beat, he said, "Penicillin."

Hmm.

Yeah, it's, it, the things we take for granted, we shouldn't take for granted.

It's, um, you know, the 21st century with all the problems that we have from a, a medical standpoint, the things that we can treat, the way we can treat, treat it-

Yeah

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This one says, "I'm a big proponent of vaccines.

How was it that vaccines I got 60 years ago, polio, measles, et cetera, are still effective today?" I presume that's true, that they still are, Doctor?

Yeah, for those b- for those diseases, yeah.

I mean, it's just amazing.

I mean, it really speaks to the brilliance of the scientists that devised these vaccines.

It's...

You know, John, we've talked about polio before.

You know, I'm old enough to remember when, when there were people who had active polio, and we were among the first to receive the polio vaccine, and just, it, the, it's extraordinary, and it still gives protection after all these years.

Uh, it's, it's just amazing.

Measles vaccine is another good example of that.

You get your measles vaccine 50 years ago, you're good to go today.

I mean, it's j- it's just extraordinary, the technology of the vaccine together with the human, human immune system.

Yeah, right.

Just something very special.

Well, read, um, Everything You Know Is Tuberculosis by John Green, and appreciate how, [laughs] by our standards today, relatively simple technology is saving countless millions of people.

You know what I was also thinking about, Doctor, was, uh, I had some dental work done yesterday.

Love my dentist, but they said take some Tylenol and some ibuprofen, and I did, because it did start to hurt after a while, and I was just amazed at how effective that is.

I could literally feel after a half hour the pain just dissipating from my mouth, and I thought how lucky we are to have the technology or the pharmacology that we have these days.

Yeah.

Once I asked Thomas Jefferson, one of our listeners did, on stage, "If you'd bring anything from the modern era back to the 18th century, what would it be?" And without missing a beat, he said, "Penicillin."

Hmm.

Yeah, it's, it, the things we take for granted, we shouldn't take for granted.

It's, um, you know, the 21st century with all the problems that we have from a, a medical standpoint, the things that we can treat, the way we can treat, treat it-

Yeah

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