Fox News medical collaborator Dr. Marty Makary joined “Your World” on Monday to discuss whether the medical institution was at risk of losing Americans’ confidence after the CDC called for caution as more states lift restrictions on coronavirus.
MAKARY: When you have a [coronavirus] case today, it is very different from a case in the fall or spring of last year. So, I don’t think it’s honest for public health officials to use fear to tell people that we could explode in another wave. There are fewer susceptible people left out there. We need to be vigilant with the new strains, but we are doing better with vaccines.
If you could look back and see what task force member Biden COVID Michael Osterholm said, the darkest days were yet to come. This was not true. Remember the “twindemia”, how would influenza combine with COVID and cause a catastrophic epidemic of these two combinations? Did not happen. We didn’t have the flu that year. Do you remember the sudden increase in an increase that was supposed to happen during the summer? People are realizing that the risk is decreasing and are right. Many of these things are causing people to lose credibility with the public health community.
Look at the Dice. Airplanes are not a source of over-propagation. If you look at people on airplanes, where there is good ventilation and wearing masks, we see good safe air travel. People need to know when they get the vaccine, there is a reward for that. The payoff is that when you wait four weeks after the first dose, you can break free. You can live a normal life. That must be our message. Certainly, let’s take a closer look at the variants. For now, it is clear that even in parts of the country where there is a high domain of the B.1.1.7 mutation, you are seeing cases plummeting there: Texas, Florida, southern California. So we have to put things in perspective. Remember that isolation also kills people.
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