Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel previews what to expect from the 6 p.m. ET news conference from the White House.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Jedediah today, President Trump
is set to announce a major
therapeutic breakthrough from
the fight against Covid 19,
in a news conference scheduled
for six p dot m Eastern here to
discuss Dr Marc Siegel.
Welcome to the show. As always,
this is obviously great news,
not sure whats going to be
discussed in the briefing but
good news when it comes to any
breakthrough. With respect to
this virus
Jedediah good morning,
you have to understand the virus.
Doesnt know that an election is
coming up, and so a virus cant
be involved in the politics
here
and the president has said. You
know that hes concerned about
the FDA being a little bit too
political right now,
and one of the things that
happened a couple of days ago
was that the FDA delayed an
emergency use, authorization on
convalescent plasma, thats, the
antibodies you get when youre
getting over Covid 19,
and the fact is that those type
of antibodies have been used for
over a hundred years
successfully for other diseases
and a study out of Houston
Methodist in three hundred patients just
showed a dramatic impact at
keeping people alive longer
so theres. Those antibodies that
could be on the table that
people recovering have
synthetic antibodies are being
studied. We have a steroid spray
that a may help early in the
process and stem cells for
people who have prolonged
symptoms that are getting over
Covid 19.
All of those things are
currently being studied
aggressively,
but it was eyebrow raising that
the FDA did not issue an
emergency use. Authorization on
the antibodies- and I dont know
for sure that thats what the
president is going to discuss,
but its on the table,
Jedediah yeah,
obviously any FDA delays. I would
potentially be problematic
well hear from the President
today at six p dot m and find out
more
another topic that you have
talked about quite a bit and you
have a recent op ed of which the
headline reads: classical damage
of closed schools, worse than the
risk of the virus,
but this is a lot of fear right
now. Around opening schools,
parents are nervous. Teachers
are nervous,
whats, your take on it all.
You know, Jed were also
burying the headline of Good
NEWS, and the Good NEWS that
occurred was six hundred and sixty daycare centers
were just tested in Rhode, island
very carefully over the month of
June, where the rate of Covid 19
spread was very low,
and you know what the CDC found
they found almost no cases in
nineteen thousand children that went to
daycare centers.
Only four cases have spread
thats right. Four out of nineteen thousand
and Dr Redfields been talking
about this of CDC and saying
you know. If protocols are in
place and theres physical,
distancing and people are taking
really a lot of caution and
care. He thinks that schools can
be opened in areas which are not
big with hot spots, where the
rate of transmission is low.
My own sons, school
horstmanen, Horace Mann, by
the way, is opening with the
tents outside and they have to
meet their teachers and the
teachers have to meet them to
know whats going on.
You cannot start the year online
and socialize properly.
Jedediah thinking outside the
box and tents outside is a great
idea.
This will be an ongoing
conversation.
Thank you, Dr Siegel, as I.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-23.