Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel weighs in on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'
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So we shut down the
so we shut down the
country and spent a trillion
dollars and made everyone wear,
masks and huddle at home.
We didnt allow people into
hospitals or nursing homes allll,
because the coronavirus was so
scary and so dangerous.
It is dangerous and it can be
scary.
More than two hundred thousand people have
died,
but that doesnt mean that
everyone is at risk
the details actually matter
so as part of our ongoing
commitment to science. On this
show, we will give you the new
CDC numbers
they show. The vast majority of
Americans face no risk,
virtually no risk
for people aged one year to sixty nine
years. The survival rate post
infection with Covid is over.
Ninety nine percent
for young people under the age
of twenty, which is most college,
students who are being thrown
out of school for congregating
outside the survival rate from
the CDC is ninety nine point, nine hundred and ninety seven percent.
Why are we doing this again,
particularly on college
campuses?
Dr Marc Siegel has thought a
lot about this. He has covered
the story from day one.
He is our Fox news. Medical
contributor:
we are happy to have him on
tonight,
good, to see you
hi Tucker,
the media obsessing on the
number two hundred thousand right.
We are looking at both sides of
this.
We are looking at the death
rate.
We are looking at the number
two hundred thousand.
We take it very seriously.
We are also looking at this Good
NEWS about survival, improving
increasing
now, first on the two hundred thousand, I
want to point out that a new
study out of Oxford showed that
over thirty percent of those deaths are not
covid.
There are other causes and they
also happen to have covid.
The second point about that is
that most of the deaths- thirty five to
fifty percent, are still occurring in
nursing homes.
A lot of that is preventable,
but thats. Why the statistic you
just said that over the age of
seventy is where the deaths are
occurring
under seventy, its almost impossible,
you are going to die
and yet from Covid
and yet fear messaging messaging
continues
everyone out there. If you have
a covid diagnosis, I bet it
percolates in your brain that it
could be you.
Why is the survival inreissing
so dramatically
its because of earlier
diagnosis,
its because of great medical
care
its because of remdesivir a
drug? We talked about first in
Nebraska
death, though Meth Zone
Plasma, new antibodies, coming
out,
Plazana,
all good news Tucker,
why the fear messaging?
Why the message to the public
that you could be next?
I have one answer for that:
Tucker its because its an
election year
and because an election is
coming up,
thats, not fair, tout american
public.
So tonight I want to say once
again: the science has to triumph
over the politics Tucker,
so the american
population voted Trump into
office in twenty. Sixteen, and this is our
long awaited punishment,
its one of the worst things our
country has ever done. I would
say
if you look at the effects on
children and if you have kids,
you know
shocking what were doing to
them
really is
Dr Siegel. Thank you
Tucker. If you have bacterial
newspaperria, there is a fourteen percent
chance. You are going to die
if you have Ebola its fifty percent
here, if you are under seventy, its
almost zero
Tucker,
yeah spinal.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-25.