Restoring Trust in Public Health

I'm really glad that his words

now can be heard by the American people.

And I share your concern.

I think that when you have a new product

like the COVID vaccine was back then,

you should be careful with pregnant women.

And it's shocking to me that

he was sharing private thoughts and

that when he was out on public,

and he was out in public a lot,

he didn't share those private thoughts with the American public.

I mean, to me, the big problem now

is really how do you restore trust in public health?

How do you restore trust in science?

That's what I've been working toward at the NIH,

to really shift toward a transparent regime

where there's scientific debate, scientific discussion,

no debates off limits.

And I fully expect there to be people that disagree with me.

And when I learn that I'm wrong,

I'm going to tell the American public that I'm wrong.

We have to turn the page from that.