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Don't Fear Omicron - December 29th, Hour 3
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I'm Greg Jarrett filling in for Sean.
We have some uh some breaking news uh to tell you about this hour.
Uh it was just announced in a federal courtroom in New York that a jury has reached a verdict in the Geelane Maxwell trial, uh longtime friend and associate and co-worker with Jeffrey Epstein.
Uh Maxwell is accused on six federal counts of sex trafficking of minors, of recruiting and enticing and grooming uh minors for sex.
The jury has reached a verdict.
We don't know what the verdict is.
We cannot take you live to the courtroom because it's in federal court, and uh cameras are not allowed in federal courtrooms.
Uh there should be cameras, but uh that is a long-standing rule that I hope one day changes.
In the meantime, we're standing by for the verdict.
We have people there.
We'll let you know the verdict as soon as it is reached.
In the meantime, uh today was a grim milestone.
The United States hit a seven-day average of 265,000 new COVID-19 cases.
Uh that is a record high since the pandemic began uh in March of 2020.
All of this, notwithstanding the repeated promises of Joe Biden that he would shut down the virus.
Now he says, well, I never had a plan.
There's no federal solution.
Uh, you know, it is troubling when the president of the United States cannot fulfill a promise because it pe people become angry about it.
And Biden should have never made the promise, but he did it to get elected.
You can imagine the conversation.
People close to him must have said, you can't possibly fulfill that promise of shutting down the virus.
Uh and his reaction, I'm sure, was something like this.
I don't care.
If I have to lie all day long every day to get elected, I'll do it.
So that's what he did.
He peddled a lie teased by hope out of ignorance because Joe Biden is probably the most incompetent president in modern American history.
Let's talk a little bit more uh about the virus with Dr. Brian Tyson and Dr. George Fareed.
They are authors of the upcoming book, Overcoming the COVID Darkness: How Two Doctors Successfully Treated 7,000 Patients.
Uh, doctors, thank you both for being with us.
Dr. Tyson, let me begin with you.
So it's a provocative title, Overcoming the COVID Darkness.
Uh, and how you successfully treated uh 7,000 patients.
How did you do it?
Well, Jared, you know, thanks for having us on.
And basically what we did was we looked at science.
Uh we looked at how do you treat other viruses?
Um, with our experience and Georgia's experience in the HIV treatment world.
Um we looked at, you know, common things that we can use to uh inhibit viral replication.
We use things to prevent uh the inflammatory response and the cytokine storm.
We used things that helped uh oxygenation when patients became hypoxemic.
Uh we used agents to prevent blood clotting when we saw blood clotting was a problem.
Um so we did what normal doctors should be doing, which is treating symptoms and preventing uh bad outcomes uh That are being seen in the hospital.
And we did that on the forefront.
Let me uh jump in here for just a moment.
We have received word that Gilang Maxwell has been found guilty of five of the six counts against her for sex trafficking of minors.
Again, Gilane Maxwell five counts guilty, one count not guilty.
So certainly a success for federal prosecutors.
We'll have more tonight on uh Hannity on Fox News channel.
Let's get back, though, to um our two doctor guests, authors of the upcoming book, Overcoming COVID darkness.
Dr. Fareed, let me turn to you.
Every indication, and you know, it is alarming when you hit a record high of daily cases.
But every indication is that Omicron, which seems to be uh moving very rapidly, highly transmissible, uh, is milder.
Hospitalizations are about nine times lower than other strains.
Death is not as frequent.
Forty percent of cases, maybe more, are asymptomatic.
Um is there a measure of overreaction, even hysteria associated with with Omicron.
I would like to echo what Ryan said stated in terms of how we've approached the pandemic, and we continue to approach it in the same way for Omicron.
You you just can't take it for granted, Greg.
By the way, it's a distinct honor to be interviewed by you.
You've inspired us to do our writing.
Your writing is an exemplary model of how to get information across, and that's what we hope we've done in in our book.
And we uh have a lot of statistical information to support uh the approach that we've taken that's been so successful.
But you you're you're a tremendous role model, and uh it's uh I don't know Brian feels the same that it's an honor to have a chance to say hello to you.
But I'd like to just say that uh there's overreaction or fear uh that has been just uh perpetuated in this pandemic uh to uh force certain things on the public, uh make them think that they have to do something that may not be good for them.
And uh when you look at what can be done, this is a very treatable illness, as Brian said, and uh Omicron is too, but you can't take it for granted.
Uh there it's strong enough that it can still uh tip people into the point where they need to be hospitalized.
And we're we're we are seeing this surge that we you were uh that was announced uh uh that's been that you um you've you've announced actually is a record-breaking number of cases.
Uh and I'm I'm running back and forth from my clinic, my office out on the parking lot, uh attending to also uh a huge number of uh of people that are frightened, and they need to be reassured.
They need to know that this is a treatable illness, that we can give them our description of our protocols or protocols with all the aspects that Brian mentioned, and they won't end up in the hospital.
And that um children do have an innate immunity, there they're they really take it uh as a mild infection.
They rarely have any significant problem and need the treatment that the adults need.
But um I would say to in answer to your question uh specifically that uh the the omicron is milder and less likely to progress into these other phases that Brian talked about uh that uh require going on an intubator, which we hope we we don't see, but I I still see that in the hospital, unfortunately.
So the big message that didn't get out, and we still are fighting for is that early treatment needs to be promoted and used with safe agents that are antiviral.
And we'll have more uh as Brian was saying, monoclonal antibodies are useful, but now some of them, the two major ones are not active against Omicron.
It's so heavily mutated.
And these mass vaccinations have generated the variants.
So that's um a long answer to your question.
And it's a great answer, and I I so look forward to reading your book, Overcoming the COVID Darkness, because uh you know we all want to overcome it.
And and we need to know these successful treatments.
And as you've pointed out, you I mean you have successfully treated uh you know 7,000 plus patients and I uh by the way I do appreciate your taking the time away from the patients who you know who are there waiting for you uh but this is important to get the message out it is.
What I also worry about and maybe Dr. Tyson you can address this is you know there are all these studies that show the pandemic restrictions have had a crushing effect on mental health especially among children uh you know constantly wearing masks or being isolated school closures uh kids being forced to eat outside in the cold away from others lack of socialization um should
that be a consideration, especially in reaction to a viral strain like Omicron that appears to be milder?
Yeah, you know, that's something that we've been pushing for well since the beginning of this pandemic.
We knew that the kids were the lowest risk group from everyone, yet they seem to be the most restricted, which to me never made any sense.
Mark, mdonald uh who's a child psychologist and he came out with uh with a book um that that outlines a lot of what uh what you've been saying and it's very clear um that the kids are being affected by it over 3,000
kids lost their life to suicide last year 3,000 uh you compare that to not a one healthy child died from COVID 19 um there there were some COVID deaths yes uh in all of those uh deaths had uh two to three comorbidities sick kids but 3,000
life lost to suicide tells you the impact that the mental health has had on these kids, especially the teenage girls.
We've seen a huge dramatic increase in depression, anxiety.
The school-age kids, the high school kids seem to suffer a lot more because they're at that time of adolescence and peer interaction, and things were taken away from them.
Sports was taken away from them.
was taken away from them graduation promecoming all of the things that they look forward to in their life as a teenager learning how to assess relationships and develop relationships leading into adulthood was all taken away from them and so now it's more of a isolation and seclusion that's causing tremendous problems.
Look at the fentanyl epidemic this year.
You know we've never seen we've never seen the drug abuse in teenagers like we've seen this last year.
Well why is that?
Because kids weren't in school kids were homeschooled kids aren't aren't out being active and doing the things that they were supposed to do.
It's tragic you know uh Dr. Farid Dr. Anthony Fauci has flip-flopped or been proving wrong on a host of different coronavirus measures and recommendations uh you know and he's the leading White House science advisor he's changed physicians or faced scientific data proving his stances are wrong uh everything from mask wearing to the severity of the virus from asymptomatic
to effective treatments for patients, among other things.
What's your reaction to that?
I'm just dismayed, and we have been since the beginning, where he could have stood up and brought in people like Peter McCullough and many others, and us included, to formulate how to treat early and not let mass casualties take place.
But that's just part of it.
I'm on these other issues that those are absolutely not appropriate.
to flip-flop on on masking and um uh and go into forcing uh mandates for or encouraging mandates for vaccination particularly for children that are so vulnerable If they um are exposed to the spike protein of COVID 19, which is comes from these vaccines, these agents uh that is toxic to the heart and toxic to other organs.
Um it's um it's significant enough that uh it warrants um it it doesn't uh stand up in a risk benefit analysis.
Um so that that's just part of um all these things that uh Fauci has been associated with that have been on the wrong side of the equation for resolving the pandemic.
Yeah.
Gentlemen, I want to thank you so very much, Dr. Brian Tyson, Dr. George Farid, uh, for taking the time away from your patients to talk to us about this vital subject.
Your new book is coming out soon.
It's entitled Overcoming the COVID Darkness How Two Doctors Successfully Treated 7,000 Patients.
Gentlemen, thank you so much.
Thank you for having us.
Appreciate it.
Yes, really appreciate it.
Again, the breaking news.
Ghilaine Maxwell in federal court found guilty of five of six federal charges against her uh involving the solicitation, the sex trafficking of minors.
We're gonna have more on that in just a moment, and we'll continue to talk about today's record, the most COVID cases in a single day uh since the pandemic began.
We'll be right back.
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I'm Greg Jarrett, uh, a jury in federal court has found British socialite Ghilain Maxwell guilty on five of six counts of sex trafficking.
She was Jeffrey Epstein's uh madam who recruited trained women uh between 1994 and 2004 when they were teenagers.
Again, guilty on five of six counts.
Jury had deliberated for a full five days, six in total.
The AP reports that Maxwell, as the verdict was being read, showed no reaction behind a black mask.
She stood with her hands folded as the jury filed out.
She glanced at her siblings as she was then let out from the courtroom, otherwise stoic.
She could face up to 70 years behind bars.
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Well, the breaking news that happened just a few minutes ago is that British socialite Ghilaine Maxwell was convicted of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
This was a verdict that capped a month-long trial in federal court, sorted accounts of the exploitation, sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14 years of age, told by four women who had the courage to take the witness stand and describe being abused as teenagers in the 1990s and early 2000s at Jeffrey Epstein's palatial homes in Florida and New York in New Mexico.
And the jurors deliberated for five days, really six, five and a half.
Maxwell was stoic as the verdict was read and then led away by the deputies in the court.
She faces a likelihood of years in prison, probably the rest of her life.
But it's an outcome that was long sought by the women who had spent years fighting first in civil court to hold Maxwell and Epstein accountable for recruiting and grooming teenage victims and joining in on the sexual abuse.
You know, the prosecutor called Ghislaine Maxwell a sophisticated predator who committed horrifying crimes.
The jurors believed it.
They didn't believe the defense argument that she was nothing more than a scapegoat for Epstein.
and so i think the maximum on these counts would be roughly seventy years uh...
will have to wait and see what the judge does In the meantime, we've been talking about uh today's grim milestone, um the most COVID cases in a day since the pandemic began in earnest in March of 2020.
I want to go to our phone lines because uh Mark joins us from Washington.
And Mark, thanks very much for holding on.
You've been there for a while.
Uh, how are you?
I'm good, Greg.
Thank you.
So what do you think about this?
Well, my thought process is this.
Do you remember that I don't know, about a month ago, Biden went on the air and said that the reason there was a spike is because of the non-vaccinated.
He said that.
And now it's amazing how the narrative had changed because all these professional sports teams are now canceling, changing, postponing, and 98% of them have been vaccinated, but yet they're getting it.
Right.
It's amazing to me how there's no breakthrough cases anymore to change that narrative.
Now everything has changed to where.
So what the point is sort of like what was the point of getting vaccinated, right?
If you're gonna if you're still gonna get infected.
I I suppose to some extent it's that it prevents you from death or hospitalization at a greater percentage than being unvaccinated, except I note what the courts have discovered,
and I'll quote here from one of the judges uh who consider the case of Joe Biden's mandatory federal vaccine mandate.
Quote, the government's own data reveal that the death rate for unvaccinated people between the ages of 18 and 29 is roughly equivalent to that of vaccinated persons between 50 and 64.
And so the judge went on to argue that OSHA and Biden uh were obligated by law to consider more tailored approaches.
Look, I I have always argued against the business closures, the mandatory lockdowns that began back in March of 2020.
And I wrote several columns about it saying it's wrong.
That you know, it's not only a violation of individual rights and some constitutional rights, but the solution is far worse than the problem.
And we now recognize that because you know you've got Biden saying there's going to be no closures and lockdowns anymore.
You've got, you know, the governor of New York, hardest hit, mayor of New York City, hard as it no closures.
No, we're not going to do that again.
Well, they learned their lesson.
Uh, you know, I I would like to sort of say, I told you so, but you know, frankly, anybody with a brain knew not to trust people like Anthony Fauci.
Um, and so, you know, I find it so confounding now that everybody agrees it's a given that lockdowns and closures are wrong.
Um, and you know, I I think of Sweden.
Sweden didn't do that.
And as a consequence, they have had as a percentage of population a far lower rate of COVID deaths and hospitalization than the United States, because they didn't do what uh mayors and governors wrongfully did beginning back in March of 2020.
The other thank you very much for calling Mark and for holding for so long.
I really appreciate it.
The other thing we've been talking about is Joe Biden's incompetence.
And most Americans have come to realize this, that their president is incompetent.
He's inept, he's not capable.
Uh and the polling data shows that that voters have buyer's remorse.
They regret putting Joe Biden in the Oval Office.
Uh close to 60 percent disapprove of Joe Biden, a scant 40 percent approve, some polls have him down to 38 percent and dropping.
So, in the course of a year, Clueless Joe has managed to mangle just about everything.
And we've been talking about it.
The record inflation.
You know, Americans are now paying an average of $3,500 more because of inflation.
Some of it's at the gas pump, soaring prices, $4, $5.
Joe said, oh, it's transitory, it's only temporary, it'll be fine.
It ain't fine, Joe.
Spiraling crime, uh, the border crisis.
He put Catala Harris in charge.
Bad move.
You don't uh put a crisis uh in the hands of somebody who's more incompetent and dumber than you are.
Uh the Afghanistan debacle, that that was historic embarrassment.
And of course, now the pandemic surge.
He I mean, this is a guy who promised to shut down the virus.
Um he was lying, or he he was completely stupid if he thought he could do that, and he hasn't done it, and people are angry, and it's reflected in the polling data.
Let me get back to our uh phone line.
Nick joins us from Arizona.
Hi, Nick, how are you?
I'm doing good, Greg, and you're doing a great job.
Thank you.
I just have a quick comment to make.
Uh you know, us average Americans can look at what's going on with Biden and figure out that he's incompetent for the for the job.
And I'm assuming that most of the politicians uh can do the same thing.
And I'm just curious, why are the Republicans not crying out for his resignation already?
Some Democrats who are probably aware that he's incompetent.
Yeah, I mean, look, Joe Biden has been a fixture for 50 years in Washington, D.C., and he ain't going until the voters push him out.
Um it's as simple as that.
Uh absent some disqualifying, you know, scandal.
Um, and and you know, look, being an incompetent fool is bad, uh, but you know, it's not enough to remove him except at the ballot box.
And of course, he's got another three years left on his term.
Um, he's of course talking about running again.
He'll be 82 years old.
I mean, given his adult brain, I'm not sure he can actually finish the rest of his first term, but he's got to say that.
Otherwise, he's a lambduck and he won't get anything done.
And of course he can agree more.
I mean, he already uh, you know, totally embarrassed himself for the way he handled his five trillion dollar uh socialist entitlement uh program that that failed.
And and now you got Chuck Schumer, God bless him.
He's gonna put it on the floor for a vote anyway, which is which is only gonna make it worse uh for some of those Democrat senators who are in purple states, and you know, it it's gonna kill them in their re-election bid, but you know, Schumer doesn't know any better, because he ain't bright either.
Uh and you know, he's got AOC nipping at his heels, so he's got to do what she says, and she wants a vote.
So Schumer, you know, Schumer may be the majority leader in the U.S. Senate, but it's really uh Ocasia Cortez.
Uh thank you, Nick.
I appreciate it.
Let's go to our next caller.
Uh Victor joins us from Maryland.
Hi, Victor.
Hey, uh, Greg, I got a question for you.
I got an idea how to drain the swamp.
Why don't we just, for example, let's put the energy department uh down in Texas.
Uh we could put the uh interior department in Wyoming and figure out where the other cabinets can go.
Just break it up and uh force these people to live where they don't want to live.
Yeah, no kidding.
Hey, you know what?
Uh I don't oppose such an idea.
The same the the problem is that you'd still have the same knuckleheads at the helm of those departments that Joe Biden appointed, right?
And and these people are so uh clueless themselves that Health and Human Services Bacera, I mean, that guy, he didn't know what day it is.
I mean, he hasn't shown up at any of the meetings uh over COVID, and you know, he's a Secretary of Health and Human Services, for goodness sakes.
I mean, geez.
Biden, you know, engaged in identity politics when he selected a lot of these people.
That you know, that's all you had to check a box.
Uh and you know as a consequence, you've got people who are incapable of doing the job properly.
So you can move them to Texas or you can move them, you know, to the Midwest somewhere.
Um, but they'll just hide out and still be uh, you know, the nitwits that they are.
I mean, it's as simple as that.
Victor uh from Maryland, thank you very much.
Appreciate the phone call.
Scooter, New Hampshire.
Mike is standing by.
Hi, Mike, how are you?
Good evening, Greg.
How are you?
I'm well, thank you.
Good.
I just have a uh a quick suggestion for you.
Uh I'm glad to see the Republicans are starting to take some seats back.
But what I'd really like to see is something like what Newt did, which is a pledge to Americans.
Great idea.
Great idea.
Those candidates and the present uh sitting Congress put pen to paper and promise the American people that those people like Fauci, uh Schiff, Clinton, Coley, that when we get power back, we will hold them accountable to the fullest extent to the law for the corruption that they've done.
I love the idea.
Um, you know, in addition to that, you know, holding those people accountable.
And you know, my goodness, I wrote two books about it, both the New York Times bestseller, uh, The Russia Hoax and Witch Hunt.
I'm all for that.
Uh, but they also need to sign on a commitment uh for real solutions to the border, uh, to the uh soaring gas prices, uh, the rampant crime, uh, the inflation.
You know, I got news for you.
Biden's idea of spending five trillion dollars.
Did he attend uh a class you know, econ 101?
Five trillion dollars in the economy is inflationary.
That's basic fundamental economics.
The Clueless Joe has no idea.
I'm Greg Jarrett filling in for Sean Hannity.
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I'm Greg Jarrett.
We're wrapping it up.
You know, Americans should feel like Howard Beale in the movie network.
We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore.
And they should be mad at Joe Biden for his utter stupidity and incompetence.
With the soaring gas prices, record inflation, crime running rampant, the border crisis, supply shortages, the pandemic surge, the Afghanistan debacle, his embarrassing legislative failure on his socialist spending bill, five trillion dollars of your money.
Let's be mad at hell.
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