July 23, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
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| Hey everybody, Dennis Prager here. | |
| If you want an antidote to fear and prefer truth, flattenthefear.com. | |
| Just visiting it is a vote for truth in this country. | |
| One of those affiliated with it is Dr. Lee Gross, a physician in North Port, Florida, 20 minutes south of Sarasota. | |
| President of Docs for Patient Care Foundation. | |
| That's the number four. | |
| And is with, again, flattenthefear.com. | |
| So I was mentioning to you, it's very important. | |
| I'm interrupting myself. | |
| I just want to note how important what you said was. | |
| That the way, as I understood what you said, The way in which hospitals work is very similar to airlines. | |
| They schedule, prior to COVID, they scheduled flights based on basically having a full flight. | |
| Otherwise, they fly at a loss. | |
| You have the number of ICU units based on essentially full capacity at any given time. | |
| Is that correct? | |
| That is absolutely correct. | |
| Right. | |
| So when the press reports full ICU, it's meaningless. | |
| Well, it's situation normal. | |
| I mean, that is our status quo every year. | |
| That's our status quo during flu season. | |
| You know, that is what we're used to. | |
| And knowing what was coming, or at least seeing the experience in Europe, we've prepared for the worst-case scenario, which is hundreds of patients needing intensive care units, hundreds of patients needing ventilators. | |
| Now, while we're still certainly seeing patients in the hospital, The fact that we're near 100% reporting is nowhere near a report of how many beds are available. | |
| So having said that, just because there's a bed available doesn't mean you want to be in it, and that doesn't mean disregard all caution. | |
| You had mentioned about corruption of the science. | |
| This is something that we're not used to in healthcare. | |
| To politicizing the healthcare message to the point where we're actually manipulating scientific data. | |
| But what happened in the New England Journal, what happened with Lancet, the studies weren't just wrong, they were fake. | |
| That is not something, Lancet doesn't retract studies easily. | |
| And so, you know, those incorrect studies, those fake studies, completely changed guidance for hospitals all around the country as to how they were treating patients early. | |
| And essentially abandoning what may ultimately prove to save hundreds of thousands of people. | |
| So we do have to flatten the fear. | |
| We have to get out in front of this. | |
| And what we're seeing in Florida, this is largely being driven by data in six counties. | |
| We have 67 counties in Florida. | |
| Almost all these cases, the vast majority of the cases, are being reported out of six counties. | |
| 61 counties are not having a crisis. | |
| In fact, in many counties, the only cases you have are in the prisons or in the nursing home. | |
| Now, we certainly fear and are saddened by every single one of those cases, but that's not a reason to close schools. | |
| And why close the schools? | |
| Because the nursing home has an outbreak in it. | |
| That doesn't make sense. | |
| So what's appropriate for Broward County and Fort Lauderdale may not be appropriate for Wachula, Florida in the middle of the state. | |
| That's been the case the whole time. | |
| I wrote about this months ago. | |
| Why are we closing down North Dakota because New York is having a crisis? | |
| Would Manhattan have shut down? | |
| That's the 64th. | |
| There's no question. | |
| They wouldn't even know what's happening. |
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