Bill Maher and Seth MacFarlane cross swords in heated debate over COVID vaccine efficacy: 'Djokovic didn't need it!'

Bill Maher brashly challenged "Family Guy" creator Seth McFarlane on the effectiveness and safety of the COVID vaccine.

Maher declared on his "Club Random" podcast: "I would think this country did not allow for natural immunity to be considered. And I know this is a subject dear to your heart. Like, even if you had the disease, you still had to get a vaccine. That’s powerfully stupid. They don’t do that in Europe."

MacFarlane claimed that the theory of natural immunity for COVID-19 was "debunked."

"Don’t you know people have had COVID four or five times? I do. That’s not natural immunity. There’s no immunity there. You’ve had COVID five times," MacFarlane argued.

Maher pointed out that high-risk groups, such as the elderly and the obese, should be vaccinated against COVID-19. However, he contested that tennis star Novak Djokovic and NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers "didn’t need it!"

MacFarlane asked the "Real Time with Bill Maher" host what the "downside" of "getting a vaccine."

Maher fired back, "Well, the fact that you don’t even have a clue what’s the cost of getting a vaccine that you don’t know the answer to that. You completely want to shut your eyes to the fact that there are repercussions to all medical interventions, including a vaccine, including all vaccines."

"They come, they say side effects, just like every medication does. You can see it in the literature. They can’t write it on their back on the vaccine. So you have to dig them," the liberal HBO star ranted. "And of course, there is a vaccine court because so many people have been injured."

Maher noted, “This is not a screed to say don’t do vaccines. I’m not against doing vaccines. I’m against doing vaccines that I don’t think I need. I should be able to decide that for myself inside my body.”

In February, a study was published that declared that natural immunity provides "at least as high, if not higher" levels of protection against COVID-19 as two doses of an mRNA vaccine. The research analyzing 65 studies from 19 different countries was published in The Lancet – one of the oldest and most respected medical journals in the world.

In November, a study found that people with natural immunity to COVID-19 have better protection against the respiratory disease than those who received mRNA vaccines.

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