June 30, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
02:43
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| The New York Times today, which is one of the leaders in the hysteria movement, has another article about Houston. | |
| You know, the hospitals are just overflowing. | |
| So we live in two different worlds of perception. | |
| How do you explain this? | |
| Well, I think you can make statistics say anything you want, right? | |
| So I think it depends on... | |
| How you look at this, following bigger pictures, it absolutely stands to reason that we're going to see an increase in number of quote-unquote positive cases as we do more testing, as society starts to open up a bit. | |
| But up to this point, the vast majority of fatalities and long-term hospitalizations has been in a population over 65. And now we start to see these areas of the country where they haven't really had much of a surge or peak before. | |
| And the natural progression of these respiratory illnesses or any illness will tend to work its way through society and civilizations and kind of find its way into different communities. | |
| And so, you know, I read an article last week that of apocalyptic proportions in Houston, the hospitals are almost at capacity. | |
| And I can tell you at least in... | |
| In St. Louis, we never even hit our best-case scenario as far as overwhelming the system. | |
| The hospitals generally run from an ICU capacity. | |
| A lot of people really focus on the severity of the illness based on ICU capacity and admissions. | |
| They usually run about 80% to 85% capacity to begin with, and so they have that built-in surge factor there. | |
| You know, the vast majority of folks that are in the ICU are not COVID patients at this point. | |
| They're non-COVID-related illnesses. | |
| So if you don't dive one step deeper into this to figure out, well, when you say that a hospital is at capacity or having to turn patients away, how many of those are positive for COVID and are related directly to COVID illnesses? | |
| And if you don't, then you're taking a headline that says lots of increased cases, and the next step is, hey, hospitals are overwhelmed. | |
| Draw the conclusion that those two things are directly related, and that's not always the case. | |
| So, of course, there's going to be some natural ebbs and flows in this, but following other trends like hospital admissions for this, days of length of stay in the hospital for the illness, ICU admissions, death rates, you know, those numbers still look good nationwide, and then, you know, death rate continues to decline. | |
| Today, we're reporting lower numbers so far than the past week or so, and the rolling average continues to decline. | |
| So I think you have to focus in on those. | |
| And to your question, really, it's true. | |
| I think if you look at it with the view that you want there to be a bit of chaos out there if you don't tell the whole story, it's easy to get overwhelmed. | |
| Yes, hold on if you would, doctor. | |
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