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Why COVID-19 'fear messaging' continues despite positive data

2020-09-25 | 🔗
Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel weighs in on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
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.