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Peter Doocy

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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)

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.

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.

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.

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

I mean, what does he say? He says, first of all, you know, the draw is the false equivalency between MMR vaccine and these phony baloney nutritional supplements that nobody needs. That's point one. Then he says the hospitalizations are due to Um, he says the hospitalizations are due to quarantine and isolation when those 90 plus kids who've been hospitalized are really, really sick.

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

I mean, what does he say? He says, first of all, you know, the draw is the false equivalency between MMR vaccine and these phony baloney nutritional supplements that nobody needs. That's point one. Then he says the hospitalizations are due to Um, he says the hospitalizations are due to quarantine and isolation when those 90 plus kids who've been hospitalized are really, really sick.

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

I mean, what does he say? He says, first of all, you know, the draw is the false equivalency between MMR vaccine and these phony baloney nutritional supplements that nobody needs. That's point one. Then he says the hospitalizations are due to Um, he says the hospitalizations are due to quarantine and isolation when those 90 plus kids who've been hospitalized are really, really sick.

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

They have measles, pneumonia, measles, neurologic, uh, uh, involved involvement in, in, in severe dehydration or, and he keeps going. He says the MMR vaccine is a, as a leaky vaccine, whatever that means. And he, you know, says that the MMR immunization rates declines 4% per year. It's nonsense. There's one modeling study suggesting it may decline 0.04% per year. That's a hundredfold difference.

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

They have measles, pneumonia, measles, neurologic, uh, uh, involved involvement in, in, in severe dehydration or, and he keeps going. He says the MMR vaccine is a, as a leaky vaccine, whatever that means. And he, you know, says that the MMR immunization rates declines 4% per year. It's nonsense. There's one modeling study suggesting it may decline 0.04% per year. That's a hundredfold difference.

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

They have measles, pneumonia, measles, neurologic, uh, uh, involved involvement in, in, in severe dehydration or, and he keeps going. He says the MMR vaccine is a, as a leaky vaccine, whatever that means. And he, you know, says that the MMR immunization rates declines 4% per year. It's nonsense. There's one modeling study suggesting it may decline 0.04% per year. That's a hundredfold difference.

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

And it keeps on going. He says the MMR vaccine is contaminated with aborted fetal material, whereas the two M's, the measles and the mumps,

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

And it keeps on going. He says the MMR vaccine is contaminated with aborted fetal material, whereas the two M's, the measles and the mumps,

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

And it keeps on going. He says the MMR vaccine is contaminated with aborted fetal material, whereas the two M's, the measles and the mumps,