'This Will Blow Up Narratives': DeSantis Offers Prediction On How Delta Variant Will Spread

governor of the cdc reported uh more than 28 000 new covenant cases on sunday but the florida department of health reports there were 15 000 can you governor possibly speak to the disparity yeah it's an easy mistake yes so what happens is cdc doesn't report on the weekends so the state of florida provided three days worth of test results to them um on monday and that's for friday saturday and sunday so those would have been reported saturday sunday monday and the cdc instead of what they normally do is they just take the total divide it by three and put it in instead of dividing by three they just put it under two days and so technically they have zero cases in florida for monday and then they had whatever they did for saturday sunday so they should have put it out over three days they put it out over two i know the department of health has reached out to them i don't know if they've corrected it since then but that's all it was it was just the way they're reporting it they didn't do it over the three days when that was three days worth of test results governor are you are your health professionals telling you that your health advisors whoever they might be obviously from the state that this surge is going to end or at least the numbers are going to just decrease in the next month no yeah no i think for sure i mean if you look um so we have a big state as you know so this so there the the the wave didn't start at the same time throughout the whole state so for example the wave started in northeast florida their indicators in terms of their rt value is now below one they have a decline seven day average decline of 18 percent in cases and they have a decline in uh covid ed visits for covet-like illnesses you have the panhandle you didn't necessarily start increasing the same time but it's a similar cycle and i think most people think that you're going to see not just florida but you'll see the sun belt uh throughout because it's not just florida i mean you know if you watch certain news channels you think florida was the only state that had any type but i mean you look at some of these other sun belt states deep south and i think you're going to see it i think you'll see it roll over for sure what you when you do these when they do these waves it's very it's a very repeatable pattern and michael levitt as a professor at stanford medical he identified this pattern like a year and a half ago when you start to see these increases you know they go and then they accelerate and then you'll have the growth will slow and then it'll kind of go into a holding pattern a plateau and then it starts to recede now the one thing we saw with great britain was they had a huge upswing and then a huge downswing very rapidly with delta and the question is is that is that unique to great britain or is that how delta there's a huge downswing in india too when delta because delta came from india so we're looking at that and and hopefully we we we see it received very quickly i would note uh because there's some people say oh well you know shut down do all that which we're not doing great britain they did their freedom day like right when they hit the peak uh in over the summer and it just fell off a cliff ever since they they got rid of all those things and so i think it shows that you know these things have a very powerful life cycle and we're seeing the the indicators and and i think you will see not just in florida i think all the states that have had the increases and then what's going to happen is is and this will blow up narratives but as the seasons change you're going to start to see these patterns emerge in the midwest and in the northeast and and i think it'll be very repeatable and i think it'll be very similar to what we saw last year maybe even uh with some of these cases because delta it's an aerosolized virus it's very transmissible and it's not something like like the things like social distancing i mean it doesn't matter because it's it's just in the air and and so i think you're going to see that and i but i think you'll see similar patterns what we have seen in florida in terms of the hospital census if you talk to pretty much every single hospital executive i spoke to chief medical officers they will tell you that the senior population that's heavily vaccinated is not showing up in the hospitals like they did last summer because the vaccine has reduced their opera their chance to be seriously ill so you don't have massive numbers of nursing home residents you don't have a lot of uh of 70 year olds i mean you have some because there's other ailments that happen and you can still be positive but that's not driving it and so that's an indication that that focusing on those vulnerable people has worked in terms of reducing severity but and what they typically see is the folks who are who end up hospitalized and particularly those who end up going to intensive care tend to be people you know who either haven't had immunity from a prior infection or you have not had any vaccination uh what i would tell folks and a lot of people don't know about this which i think is uh is kind of should have been everyone should know this if you do get infected particularly if you're higher risk they have monoclonal antibody treatments that if you get it's an iv treatment if you get it early the chance of you being hospitalized is very very small and it's worked very well throughout the state the only issues been is not everybody knows about it and what happens is you're somebody that's higher risk and you get infected and you don't necessarily feel that bad the incentive is kind of like ah well you know what i think i'm gonna be fine what happens though is is that once the once the virus progresses and it becomes more serious the monoclonal antibody at that point is not likely uh to to reverse it if you get it early i mean it really nukes it people's symptoms are resolved relatively quickly it's the kind of the closest thing we have to a cure you just have to do it at the very beginning of the infection cycle and so that's what we're trying to tell people is okay if you get infected talk to your doctor immediately and ask about whether the monoclonal antibody treatment it's it's one of them is regeneron which president trump used when he got that was still under experimental use then uh he used it and he's told me personally that that totally cleared everything up i've taught you got to go by data and the data's strong on this and you know so anecdotes you you've got to take with a grain of salt but it is striking to me a hundred percent of the people that i know that have gotten monoclonal antibodies have said that it completely resolved their covet infection within 48 hours so that's the message for folks i mean obviously we have now in florida we have over 80 percent of that 50 plus population that's been vaccinated that has helped reduce illness now it doesn't do what we hope in terms of creating herd immunity people are still testing positive who are vaccinated it's usually a very mild mild case they're not being hospitalized in large numbers but it's not necessarily preventing the spread like we hoped that would do and people are looking at that i've talked to to folks you know places like stanford and harvard and they they said that they think that the monoclonal or the um the vaccines probably do reduce your likelihood of being infected and spreading it for about three months pretty dramatically but then after that it's a little easier for you to catch it and that again these are not serious cases but if you're counting cases and if that's what people are fixated on just know that you will continue to see cases even as the vaccinations go i think it's also important to point out people there's a narrative saying that somehow that increased cases are tied to how how high the vaccination rates are florida we have the highest vaccination rate in the southeast we're 22 out of 51. so it's not like we're you know we're a little bit above average nationwide and then with seniors and 50 plus you know we've got over 80 percent of 50 plus you have places like israel that are the most vaccinated country is one of the most vaccinated countries in the world they're having huge surges right now probably similar on a per capita basis to what florida has seen over the last couple weeks you look at some areas like iceland it's like almost 90 percent vaccinated they're having huge increases and so uh the cases in kind of some of these these spikes the vaccinations are not necessarily preventing that now i do think they're helping to prevent a serious illness but just people just need to know that that's kind of what the use of them is for and if people susp if they have a um a belief that well if if more people got vaccinated then kova would go away that that is i think at this point we know that that will not happen i mean it will continue to circulate uh and even people like like me who are vaccinated you know i'm going to come and i probably have come in contact with it but i mean i don't have never tested positive but if i come in contact with it you know i potentially could get a very mild infection and then that helps build the immunity but that's what that's the way this is going to play out it's not going to play out i know some of these these these folks in dc have said you know once we have i mean i think people in in that are on tv all the time once we have 50 vaccinated cobit will just go go away that's not that's obviously not not true because we have 50 nationally vaccinated and we still see so that's just what we're dealing with but um you know at the end of the day i think uh i think we have the tools between the vaccinations and the monoclonal antibodies to be able to take covid from something that was you know certainly more risky for elderly people in particular than the typical respiratory virus and take that and really make it a flu level risk for most people and that's kind of the direction uh that we're going okay well i gotta i gotta run and get back uh get back to tallahassee but thank you all for for coming and we really appreciate everything that the escambia county sheriff's department and everyone here does for us thank you

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Keywords: Gov. Ron DeSantis, Delta variant, COVID-19

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Length: 10min 7sec (607 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 10 2021

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[u/DJBlu-Ray]

It's a race against time. That's why there's so much desperation from the ruling elite. They know the narratives aren't based in fact or science.

It's why we have to hold fast and resist the vaccine coercion