As one of the chief vaccine deniers senator Rand Paul we tried to make Dr Anthony Fauci into his personal punching bag today as they went head to head over the senator’s bogus claims at the national institutes of health somehow played a role in funding research that led to the origins of the pandemic Dr Fauci was definitely not having it.
Dr Fauci knowing that is a crime to lie to Congress do you wish to retract your statement of May 11 were you claimed at the NIH never funded gain of function research in Wuhan.
Senator Paul you do not know what you are talking about quite frankly and I want to say that officially you do not know what you are talking about. This is a pattern that senator Paul has been doing now had multiple hearings based on no reality he keeps talking about gain of function this is been evaluated multiple times by qualified people to not fall under the gain of function definition. I have not lied before Congress I have never lied certainly not before Congress you are implying that what we did was responsible for the deaths of individual, I totally resent that. If anybody is lying here senator it is you.
What is wrong with Rand Paul seriously. I know that’s what you at home or thinking because I’m thinking the same thing what’s wrong with him what is he trying to prove. There’s nothing to prove there. He keeps embarrassing himself rand Paul stop it you look like an idiot. The lying the misinformation it’s why we can’t bridge the political gap even though our lives are at stake and you still have people who are acting like Rand Paul joining us to discuss C. N. N.’s medical analyst Dr Jonathan Reiner he is the director of the Cartier capitalization program at George Washington University hospital it’s always a pleasure to have him on thank you Dr I appreciate it Dr you know this is not the first time the 2 men have gone at it listen to this and then we’ll talk.
Let me just state for the record that masks are not theater masks are protective and.
We with immunity they are theater if you already have immunity you’re wearing a mask to give comfort to others you’re not wearing a mask to meet science.
I totally disagree with you.
Doctor Fauci do you still support funding of the NIH funding of the lab in Wuhan.
Senator Paul with all due respect you are entirely and completely incorrect
Dr Fauci knowing that is a crime to lie to Congress do you wish to retract your statement of may 11 were you claimed at the NIH never funded gain of function research in Wuhan.
Senator Paul you do not know what you are talking about quite frankly and I want to say that officially you do not know what you are talking about.
Okay so doctor. You are a doctor Rand Paul is supposedly a doctor and yet he is picking these fights. Why does he continue to beclown himself and how is this helping the federal corporate response.
Well obviously doesn’t help the Covid response Don. Oh, look from the almost from the outset senator Paul has been trying to deflect or or sort of mask the prior administration disastrous response and and sort of throw blame on others and particularly Dr Tony Fauci and what he did dishonestly today was really conflate 2 issues he raised this issue of the National Institute of allergy infectious disease support for research lab at that the Wuhan institute and he tried to to basically you know link that to the sars Covid2 virus he tried to make it sound like the research the that was occurring under the support of NIH led to the sars Covid2 virus and that’s what enraged Doctor Fauci you know understandably so. He’s you know he’s really you know. Senator Paul is the person who while he was waiting for his Covid lab results to come back decided it was a great idea to take a swim in the Senate pool. He’s the person that during the hottest days of the virus in January refused to wear a mask on the Senate floor and to this day he has refused to be vaccinated claiming that he has all the immunity that he needs what he picks a fight with somebody who you know is perhaps the world’s expert on this topic and something that he really knows very little about.
Yeah a pediatrician group finding 23000 children caught the corona virus last week and I just want to listen to what the CDC director saying about that today here it is.
One thing I just want to know with the children is I I think we fall into this flaw thinking of saying that only 400 of these 600,000 deaths from covid 19 have been in children. Children are not supposed to die and so 400 is a huge amount for a for a season of respiratory season.
Dr. Reiner I know a lot of parents to comfort earlier in this pandemic that the kids weren’t getting sick but she is making a very good point their children are still in danger how do people how should people be thinking about this.
Yeah 400 fatality in children is enourmous toll are the worst year on record for flu was 2 years ago and 188 children died and that was unacceptable so the way to think about it is this Don even though the case fatality rate for Covid in children is very low if you multiply that very low number by a very large number of infections I will see a completely unacceptable tragic number of children dying so even if only you know point 001 percent of children die if millions of children become infected we’ll see tragic horrible number of children getting very sick and die. That’s the point the doctor Wilenskey was trying to make.
Again in the CDC director Dr Wilensky saying today that that that that the highly transmissible delta variant now makes up 83 percent of new Covid cases that’s up from 50 percent earlier this month this variant is clearly highly transmissible what do both vaccinated and unvaccinated people need to know doctor.
So vaccinate people need to know that they are very well protected it is extraordinarily unlikely that they will become ill it’s actually unlikely that they will become infected it’s much more likely that they will become ill and almost impossible for them to die the unvaccinated need to know that you can die from this virus it is much more transmissible and you can very well die all the people in hospitals now essentially are unvaccinated around the country there were 7000 new cases in Florida today in in a in 2 weeks we’re going to start to see again unacceptably high levels of death coming out of the south and southwest and up through the Midwest in this country it doesn’t have to happen this is happening in unvaccinated people we have the answer it’s just the shot get the shot.
Yeah get the shot during the height of the pandemic we’d say Dr Reiner was our nightly house call and here we are back with our nightly house calls again with Dr Reiner it’s a pleasure to see you but I wish it was under better circumstances Dr thank you so much for joining.
Me to Don.