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Peter Doocy

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312 total appearances

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The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

It was actually both predicted and predictable. It's not like this thing came out of nowhere. I had written an article in 2016, almost 10 years ago, called Texas and its measles epidemics that more or less predicted this was going to happen, even identified the county where it would begin.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

in Gaines County because we had started to see this steep decline in vaccination rates across the rural conservative areas of West Texas, in part because of libertarian ideologies. But then it picked up momentum in two places. One, it kind of converged with the health and wellness and influencer movement

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

in Gaines County because we had started to see this steep decline in vaccination rates across the rural conservative areas of West Texas, in part because of libertarian ideologies. But then it picked up momentum in two places. One, it kind of converged with the health and wellness and influencer movement

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

in Gaines County because we had started to see this steep decline in vaccination rates across the rural conservative areas of West Texas, in part because of libertarian ideologies. But then it picked up momentum in two places. One, it kind of converged with the health and wellness and influencer movement

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

That is based on buying in bulk, whatever it can and jacking up the price and selling with a telehealth visit. That's where ivermectin comes from. That's where hydroxychloroquine come from. And so you starting to see those forces merge. And so when our good friend, Mr. Kennedy, you know, is Health and Human Services Secretary.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

That is based on buying in bulk, whatever it can and jacking up the price and selling with a telehealth visit. That's where ivermectin comes from. That's where hydroxychloroquine come from. And so you starting to see those forces merge. And so when our good friend, Mr. Kennedy, you know, is Health and Human Services Secretary.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

That is based on buying in bulk, whatever it can and jacking up the price and selling with a telehealth visit. That's where ivermectin comes from. That's where hydroxychloroquine come from. And so you starting to see those forces merge. And so when our good friend, Mr. Kennedy, you know, is Health and Human Services Secretary.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

When asked about the MMR vaccine, you know, he pairs it with, hey, you can either get the MMR vaccine or you can get this kind of useless cocktail of interventions of budesonide and vitamin A and clarithromycin and cod liver oil. And people are saying, well, where the heck does that come from? It comes out of the health and wellness and influencer movement, which is now he's adopted that. And

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

When asked about the MMR vaccine, you know, he pairs it with, hey, you can either get the MMR vaccine or you can get this kind of useless cocktail of interventions of budesonide and vitamin A and clarithromycin and cod liver oil. And people are saying, well, where the heck does that come from? It comes out of the health and wellness and influencer movement, which is now he's adopted that. And

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

When asked about the MMR vaccine, you know, he pairs it with, hey, you can either get the MMR vaccine or you can get this kind of useless cocktail of interventions of budesonide and vitamin A and clarithromycin and cod liver oil. And people are saying, well, where the heck does that come from? It comes out of the health and wellness and influencer movement, which is now he's adopted that. And

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

And the reason why we need to care is not just because we like throwing darts at people, but because it's affecting public health. I mean, those converging forces really accelerating during our time of COVID. We estimate in Texas of the 100,000 Texans who died of COVID, one of the worst affected states in the country, almost half died needlessly because they refused COVID immunizations.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

And the reason why we need to care is not just because we like throwing darts at people, but because it's affecting public health. I mean, those converging forces really accelerating during our time of COVID. We estimate in Texas of the 100,000 Texans who died of COVID, one of the worst affected states in the country, almost half died needlessly because they refused COVID immunizations.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

And the reason why we need to care is not just because we like throwing darts at people, but because it's affecting public health. I mean, those converging forces really accelerating during our time of COVID. We estimate in Texas of the 100,000 Texans who died of COVID, one of the worst affected states in the country, almost half died needlessly because they refused COVID immunizations.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

And especially, you know, starting in 2021, after vaccines became widely available with the start of the Delta wave, that's where we started seeing people die in droves. And guess where they died? They died in the same places where measles is now in those rural conservative areas of West Texas and

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

And especially, you know, starting in 2021, after vaccines became widely available with the start of the Delta wave, that's where we started seeing people die in droves. And guess where they died? They died in the same places where measles is now in those rural conservative areas of West Texas and

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

And especially, you know, starting in 2021, after vaccines became widely available with the start of the Delta wave, that's where we started seeing people die in droves. And guess where they died? They died in the same places where measles is now in those rural conservative areas of West Texas and

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

parts of East Texas, not so much in the cities of the Texas Triangle, in some cases, but mostly in those areas. And now we're seeing that spill over again to childhood immunizations with 1,000 measles cases, 90-plus hospitalizations, and two pediatric deaths, tragically.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

parts of East Texas, not so much in the cities of the Texas Triangle, in some cases, but mostly in those areas. And now we're seeing that spill over again to childhood immunizations with 1,000 measles cases, 90-plus hospitalizations, and two pediatric deaths, tragically.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

parts of East Texas, not so much in the cities of the Texas Triangle, in some cases, but mostly in those areas. And now we're seeing that spill over again to childhood immunizations with 1,000 measles cases, 90-plus hospitalizations, and two pediatric deaths, tragically.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 7: Misinformation, MAHA, Measles, and the Future of Medicine (with Drs. Peter Hotez and Sapna Singh)

No. I mean, he has become sort of disinformation officer in chief. I was kind of hoping with the wind down of COVID, not that it's totally wound down by any means, but I would get a break from TV, but Mr. Kennedy seems determined to call me out of retirement. you know, it's because it's a zinger every few days, right? And I mean, and it's very, and it all is a very consistent theme.