Dennis Prager Show - Was 2020 a Year of More Excess Deaths Due to Covid-19?
Aired: 2021-01-06
Duration: 09:40


=== Total Deaths U.S. 2019 (03:01) ===

[00:00:00]  Number of deaths in the U.S. 2018, 2019, 2020. If you put in, as the last caller said, annual deaths U.S. No, year.
[00:00:18]  Annual, I'll do it right now.
[00:00:19]  Annual deaths U.S. 2019. Okay?
[00:00:25]  So the first thing that comes up is fast stats.
[00:00:29]  Deaths and mortality CDC. And I've gotten that like 10 times.
[00:00:37]  And it's misleading because you put in 2019 and the 2018. He didn't say annual.
[00:00:44]  He said total.
[00:00:45]  Oh, he didn't say annual?
[00:00:47]  He said total?
[00:00:48]  Okay, fine.
[00:00:49]  I'll put in total.
[00:00:50]  I'm not saying he's wrong.
[00:00:51]  I'm just trying to figure out how to find.
[00:00:53]  Total deaths U.S. 2019. The first thing that comes up.
[00:00:58]  Mortality in the United States 2019. And you have to...
[00:01:06]  It's not as clear as the previous at all.
[00:01:09]  You have to go...
[00:01:10]  It's an article.
[00:01:10]  It's not about data rather than the data raw.
[00:01:14]  But anyway, it doesn't matter.
[00:01:15]  Finally, I get a number.
[00:01:17]  Summary.
[00:01:18]  In 2019, a total of 2,854,000 resident deaths were registered in the United States.
[00:01:27]  So...
[00:01:27]  What do I do next?
[00:01:29]  The obvious.
[00:01:30]  The exact same thing.
[00:01:32]  Total deaths U.S. 2020. All right.
[00:01:37]  Let's see what I get then.
[00:01:41]  I get USA Facts.
[00:01:44]  Okay, this is irrelevant to me.
[00:01:46]  I want to get CDC. State and National Provisional Counts.
[00:01:52]  2020. 12 months ending number of deaths.
[00:02:03]  Is that an appropriate...
[00:02:06]  No, it doesn't only go to June.
[00:02:12]  Oh yeah, well it only goes to June.
[00:02:16]  Okay, so we don't know.
[00:02:18]  Okay, so I don't get the data there.
[00:02:22]  Then I get an AP News article.
[00:02:25]  Anyway, there's nothing more that I get from the CBC, at least the first page.
[00:02:31]  So I'm very, obviously, I'll be curious to know, also 2018, I think 2019 was a low year, but I'm not sure.
[00:02:43]  Anyway, look, if there were truly 300,000 or so more deaths this year than last year, and the year before and the year before, in other words, that 2019 was not a fluke of a low number, then that tells me that COVID has killed a lot of people.

=== Professor's Question: Ivermectin Matters (06:38) ===

[00:03:02]  I can't think of another reason why there would be a lot more.
[00:03:09]  My bigger question, I have two bigger questions than that.
[00:03:13]  Could we have saved a vast number of lives had the medical establishment been honest and told people about hydroxychloroquine and zinc, about ivermectin, about vitamin D, and about zinc?
[00:03:32]  That's the great question.
[00:03:34]  What was the latest study on ivermectin?
[00:03:37]  Which was reported at the Senate hearings.
[00:03:40]  Yeah, this is the New York Post yesterday.
[00:03:44]  Cheap hair lice drug may cut risk of COVID-19 deaths by 80%, study says.
[00:03:53]  A simple treatment for COVID-19 could be cheaper than $20 and familiar to most grade school nurses.
[00:04:02]  Head lice drug Ivermectin is being explored as a potential treatment for the coronavirus, following a promising new study that showed an 80% reduction in hospitalized COVID-19 patient deaths.
[00:04:21]  Just 8 out of 573 patients who received Ivermectin passed away, compared to the 44 individuals out of 510 who died after being given a placebo.
[00:04:35]  Poor people.
[00:04:37]  Talk about luck in life.
[00:04:40]  Hey, I'll join this test.
[00:04:44]  They give you a placebo.
[00:04:46]  An earlier study of the anti-parasitic prescription drug, which cost between $17 and $43 for a course of treatment, according to GoodRx, revealed promising results in April.
[00:05:02]  By removing all viral RNA within 48 hours of a single dose.
[00:05:08]  Liverpool University virologist Andrew Hill has called the new study transformational in the search for a coronavirus therapy.
[00:05:19]  His findings based on data from over 1,400 patients were made public in a video posted to YouTube.
[00:05:28]  Can't believe they allowed it posted.
[00:05:32]  I wonder if it's still up there.
[00:05:34]  In which Hill, that's the Liverpool University virologist, discusses his results in a previously aired live stream.
[00:05:44]  The research currently awaits peer review prior to publishing.
[00:05:49]  If we see these same trends observed consistently across more studies, then this really is going to be a transformational treatment, said Hill.
[00:06:01]  However, critics have called Hill's study conclusion premature, urging further research before declaring ivermectin an effective treatment.
[00:06:13]  Now let me ask you a question, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:06:18]  Why on God's earth would you not take it until there are, as you await peer-reviewed studies?
[00:06:30]  If you had cancer and a number of doctors told you, we have a drug and we've tried it and just eight people died and five times as many died who took a placebo, would you take the drug?
[00:06:49]  Would you think your doctor were a moron if he said don't when there were no side effects?
[00:06:54]  Ivermectin is as close to no side effects.
[00:06:59]  As anything other than broccoli could give you.
[00:07:06]  What doctor would withhold from a COVID patient, ivermectin, given results that have not yet been peer-reviewed?
[00:07:16]  Dude, so what, since it can't hurt?
[00:07:18]  Tell me, tell me, how does that make sense?
[00:07:26]  Why is my cancer analogy not apt?
[00:07:29]  People are scared and scared and scared They ruin their children's lives.
[00:07:39]  They ruin their marriages.
[00:07:40]  They go back on drugs.
[00:07:42]  Some commit suicide.
[00:07:43]  The anxiety levels are skyrocketing.
[00:07:45]  But they won't take ivermectin!
[00:07:49]  God!
[00:07:50]  The contempt I have for this decision is...
[00:07:55]  It overwhelms me.
[00:08:00]  And you can't say, oh, it's political.
[00:08:02]  I've never heard the president once mention ivermectin.
[00:08:09]  For the left, if the president said it's good to breathe, they would have something, they would find something flawed in breathing.
[00:08:18]  Critics have called Hill Study conclusion premature.
[00:08:21]  Urging further research.
[00:08:23]  While people die, further research.
[00:08:25]  Don't take it.
[00:08:28]  All we have are observational studies and clinicians' opinions at University of Sydney Professor Andrew McLachlan.
[00:08:36]  So what do you advise, Professor McLachlan, people not take it if they get COVID? What's your advice?
[00:08:45]  Many of the current studies have low numbers of participants.
[00:08:48]  Weak study designs and inconsistent and relatively low ivermectin dosing regimes with ivermectin frequently given in combination with other drugs.
[00:09:00]  So what?
[00:09:02]  If it works, it works.
[00:09:08]  When I hear the word professor, I'm so sorry to tell you.
[00:09:12]  I just assume silliness will follow.
[00:09:15]  It's not always the case, thank God.
[00:09:18]  But it's hard for the layperson to know.
[00:09:23]  Will the words following professor so-and-so said, or studies say, or experts say, be rational or irrational, truthful or false?
[00:09:37]  That's the crisis of our time, isn't it?