DeSantis Blasts Fauci At State Surgeon General Announcement

no noble lies you tell the truth on what the data is saying you don't and the same thing with the treatment and the antibodies part of the reason when i rolled out the antibodies we were in the midst of a wave okay people like fauci said if 50 were vaccinated you would have no more surges we had that in fact our seniors were over 90 percent and yet you see admissions going up so what do you do and people are saying well most of these people aren't vaccinated who are being admitted true 100 i wish that they had been i think many of them probably wouldn't have been admitted at the same time when you're in the midst of a wave you can vaccinate immediately it doesn't kick in for weeks probably six weeks after that so what are you going to do to help people in the meantime and we were seeing people who were vaccinated getting infected we hoped that it would produce sterilizing immunity remember the pfizer trial 95 reduction that's clearly not happening i mean we look around people are getting infected the role that vaccinated people play in spreading it i don't know but i can tell you i think every state in the country had higher cases this summer than they did last summer when no one was vaccinated so it'd be hard for me to think it's only occurring amongst a small slice so nevertheless we saw that and we knew our most vulnerable people overwhelmingly were vaccinated so what do you do well we had an effective treatment that's been emergency use since the end of 2020 it was used on the president of the united states to help him recover from covid this is something that many of our hospitals were using but it was something that almost none of these people being admitted to the hospital even knew about many physicians as of last month were still telling people okay go home hope you don't get deathly ill if you get deathly ill then go to the hospital there was never any interest or belief that this should be treated or even could be treated i don't know why but i do think that one of the reasons why this was not something that was put out there very publicly by the experts and by the powers that be in in dc is because they feared that if you tell people there's an effective treatment you tell people kovid's a treatable illness they feared some people would say well you know maybe i won't get vaccinated i'll just get the treatment and so they didn't want that message out because they feared how people would behave and my view is we've always said it compliments if you want to cover all your bases do it as a compliment but you can't not tell people that this is something that's available and so the result is when we started doing our push i was attacked for it saying you're not supposed to do it uh we did it we raised awareness which is very important and then we expanded access and the result has been i think we're at what 29 straight days where the hospital census has declined eight percent reduction in the census uh this as of this morning uh ed visits this is all tanking and um it was the right thing to do now you have other states where they're now following florida's lead i get people people will write into the office here from these other states thanking me because they didn't know about this and so they started bothering some of their doctors in these other states to be able to get this so having the treatment is the right thing to do i think increasingly as we see more vaccinated people test positive again i think most of the time it's going to be a mild case and you're probably not going to need this but we are seeing some very vulnerable people uh who have been saved for this and if you look at some of the places i mean miami i think it's like 60 some percent of the people that have gone to our treatment site and date have been vaccinated um broward is i think 52 some of the other sites more more rural areas the majority are unvaccinated and i'd say overall you know you're looking at 40 to 45 percent of the people statewide that have gotten this treatment have been vaccinated who were either infected or were exposed and are in high risk situations so telling the truth i think is important and i think that's what dr ladappo understands that you got to tell people the truth and you got to let them make decisions they may not always make the decision that you want them to make but i think that's much better than pulling the wall in their eyes now we have a situation in florida now where in spite of this data where we see far fewer people being admitted to the hospital thankfully we're seeing people kept out we're seeing lives saved

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Published: Tue Sep 21 2021