Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel joins Tucker Carlson with insight on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
A lot of news
recently about a resurgence of
they will hung coronavirus here
in the United States
youre starting to hear some
apologistspoliticians suggesting
another round of lockdowns.
That question may be moot
because researchers, in the- u dot, K,
claim theyve developed a viable
vaccine for the coronavirus.
We turn, as we always do to
Fox NEWS medical contributor,
Dr Marc Siegel,
Hey Doctor
Tucker. This is really big
news tonight.
I am optimistic about this and
this Oxford University vaccine,
which is a very modern vaccine
using genetic material using a
different kind of a virus from a
chimpanzee to bring the payload
in that actually starts the war
against the coronavirus,
thats. What we are talking about
here, Tucker a war
ive, never described a war to
you this way before
its a war in the bloodstream, a
war of our immune cells, fighting
a virus
and if they vaccine works, the
vaccine causes those immune
cells to be revved up.
The immune cells that weve
always talked about are the b
cells that make antibodies.
We are talking, antibodies,
antibodies, antibodies.
This vaccine actually does make
those antibodies.
They studied one thousand volunteers.
Half of them got a meningitis
vaccine and the other half got
this vaccine and they found that
the people that got this vaccine
made the antibodies that we need
called neutralizing antibodies
to neutralize the virus.
Theres a bigger story here,
Tucker
Itsy cell. I never talked about
before
its called t cell,
those of the real immune
warriors against the virus, and
they never of course, get top
billing right.
The t cells,
what does a t cell do
one kind of t cell AIDS, those
antibodies and attacking the
virus?
Its called a helper cell,
the other one, the most
prodigious powerful cell in the
human body is a natural killer
cell.
He deserves the name,
it literally attacks the virus
and kills it.
You know they found with this
vaccine.
At fourteen days and twenty days they
found an abundance of those
antibodies, an abundance of
those t cells, a great marker of
immunity.
We have to see how this goes
over the several weeks and
months
now it will be tried and thirty thousand
people around the world.
This is very positive news that
we are going to have a working
vaccine here. Tucker
the Oxford vaccine with
Astrazeneca involved
very, very, very promising,
wow and unexpected
Dr Siegel. Thank you for that
report,
appreciate it
follow the science Tucker.
Transcript generated on 2020-07-21.