Dennis Prager Show - Flatten the Fear not the Curve: Dr. Lee Gross Aired: 2020-07-23 Duration: 03:59 === Why Hospitals Work Like Airlines (02:16) === [00:00:00] Hey everybody, Dennis Prager here. [00:00:03] If you want an antidote to fear and prefer truth, flattenthefear.com. [00:00:13] Just visiting it is a vote for truth in this country. [00:00:20] One of those affiliated with it is Dr. Lee Gross, a physician in North Port, Florida, 20 minutes south of Sarasota. [00:00:29] President of Docs for Patient Care Foundation. [00:00:35] That's the number four. [00:00:38] And is with, again, flattenthefear.com. [00:00:42] So I was mentioning to you, it's very important. [00:00:46] I'm interrupting myself. [00:00:47] I just want to note how important what you said was. [00:00:51] That the way, as I understood what you said, The way in which hospitals work is very similar to airlines. [00:01:01] They schedule, prior to COVID, they scheduled flights based on basically having a full flight. [00:01:10] Otherwise, they fly at a loss. [00:01:13] You have the number of ICU units based on essentially full capacity at any given time. [00:01:22] Is that correct? [00:01:23] That is absolutely correct. [00:01:26] Right. [00:01:26] So when the press reports full ICU, it's meaningless. [00:01:31] Well, it's situation normal. [00:01:33] I mean, that is our status quo every year. [00:01:36] That's our status quo during flu season. [00:01:38] You know, that is what we're used to. [00:01:40] 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. [00:01:51] 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. === Manipulating Scientific Data (01:58) === [00:02:04] 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. [00:02:14] You had mentioned about corruption of the science. [00:02:17] This is something that we're not used to in healthcare. [00:02:22] To politicizing the healthcare message to the point where we're actually manipulating scientific data. [00:02:27] But what happened in the New England Journal, what happened with Lancet, the studies weren't just wrong, they were fake. [00:02:35] That is not something, Lancet doesn't retract studies easily. [00:02:38] 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. [00:02:49] And essentially abandoning what may ultimately prove to save hundreds of thousands of people. [00:02:55] So we do have to flatten the fear. [00:02:57] We have to get out in front of this. [00:02:59] And what we're seeing in Florida, this is largely being driven by data in six counties. [00:03:06] We have 67 counties in Florida. [00:03:08] Almost all these cases, the vast majority of the cases, are being reported out of six counties. [00:03:14] 61 counties are not having a crisis. [00:03:16] In fact, in many counties, the only cases you have are in the prisons or in the nursing home. [00:03:21] Now, we certainly fear and are saddened by every single one of those cases, but that's not a reason to close schools. [00:03:28] And why close the schools? [00:03:29] Because the nursing home has an outbreak in it. [00:03:31] That doesn't make sense. [00:03:33] So what's appropriate for Broward County and Fort Lauderdale may not be appropriate for Wachula, Florida in the middle of the state. [00:03:40] That's been the case the whole time. [00:03:42] I wrote about this months ago. [00:03:45] Why are we closing down North Dakota because New York is having a crisis? [00:03:52] Would Manhattan have shut down? [00:03:54] That's the 64th. [00:03:56] There's no question. [00:03:58] They wouldn't even know what's happening.