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00:09:30.220the average discount is 23 so without any of those discounts if your store is getting rid of those
00:09:38.900discounts um you're going to be paying you're going to be paying at least five percent more
00:09:47.120you could be paying as high as 23 percent more plus any inflation on top of that if you look at uh the prices
00:09:57.800the commonly purchased items have increased by 25 percent since before this thing started
00:10:06.180shortages are now starting to appear shortages in uh the store stores are struggling and spreading
00:10:12.960the inventory out filling in the gaps i've never seen this in my life
00:10:18.280households are now using 40 percent more toilet paper than before well we finally figured out why
00:10:26.260because we're all going to the bathroom at our home of course we're using more toilet paper
00:10:32.180we're only using our home not the store not our place of business and that's a problem because we
00:10:40.060can't make the toilet paper we're making industrial toilet paper and until we can start selling the
00:10:47.080industrial toilet paper in the supermarkets we're going to have a problem with toilet paper
00:10:53.320this problem also is not just about shortages it is it's about processing and distribution
00:11:06.74010 large meat processing plants have closed distribution has farmers by dumping thousands
00:11:13.760of gallons of gallons of milk plowing under vegetables in the fields leaving potatoes millions of potatoes
00:11:19.600to rot does any of this sound like the great depression because this is exactly what happened
00:11:24.400a lot of food being produced destined for restaurants hotels cruise ships diverting it now to grocery
00:11:32.420stores and the millions of people using food banks almost impossible because of red tape the federal
00:11:41.080government where's the distribution the scarcity could be limited if we just allowed businesses to for
00:11:51.960instance farmers selling their vegetables directly to grocery stores we must localize our systems we've put
00:12:00.360ourselves in such a bad place right now we're in a place right now that makes that makes no sense
00:12:07.240everything we have ability to do everything but we have nationwide distribution your local farms are not providing locally we've got to get back to local production we've got to get back to at least american production i don't know if you have seen the list of things that come from china tires tires retreading products all rubber products including but not limited to stoppers caps lids hoses
00:12:37.080belts belts belts tubes pipes antifreeze de-icing fluids iron and iron alloys and steel products aluminum and alloys nuclear reactors and parts central heating units and parts furnace burners all parts furnace ovens water heaters turbines hydraulic engines pneumatic engines turbo engines pumps of all kinds machinery for food production commercial and home use paper making and bookmark bookmaking anything printed
00:16:50.200If you look at history, once the federal government began guaranteeing the loans, that's when college became unattainable for most people.
00:16:59.320Because the college has said, well, the government's going to guarantee the loan so we can charge whatever they want, because the government will give all those loans and guarantee them.
00:17:10.540When we had two workers in the house, when women went back to work or went to work and we had mom and dad working, the price of houses doubled.
00:19:28.200Looks like Donald Trump may be turning away from supporting funding for cash strapped states and cities in the in any new coronavirus bill.
00:19:52.280This last one they did, which is what is what you described at the very beginning of the show is running into all sorts of problems of the past couple of mornings.
00:19:59.680That's stimulus three point five, not stimulus force.
00:20:02.620The next one would be phase four, not phase five.
00:20:06.360Or maybe it'll be phase three point seven.
00:20:09.040You know, maybe they'll just kind of just keep breaking it down.
00:20:23.540Like there is if you think about that, there's a lot of small businesses who really need this money and and are the exact type of business you'd think should get it right.
00:20:34.060Some restaurant who is keeping their people employed somehow, even though they're getting no revenue.
00:20:39.820It's exactly what the you know, was it designed for and there'll be tons of those people who don't get the money and there will be tons of people who would do to a relationship with the bank or a personal relationship or who knows what are able to get the small business loan despite the fact that they may not have lost any revenue.
00:20:58.700And I did some checking on this over the weekend.
00:21:00.860It doesn't seem as if you need to pay it back.
00:21:04.520Like, let's say you take a no, as long as you don't fire, as long as you don't fire people, right?
00:21:09.620All you have to do is basically tell them you believe there will be an impact, whether the impact from COVID actually comes or not is a whole nother story.
00:21:18.200So if you're selling, if you're if your job is you're selling paper towels and toilet paper and actually this is a boom time for you, you're not paying back that money.
00:21:28.620You're essentially running your business without a staffing cost, which is, you know, I've totally, you know, not what we were trying to do here with this program, but it's going to happen.
00:21:43.140People are going to figure out how to, you know, use this system and use it really well.
00:21:48.740And, you know, you had mentioned earlier, some of these restaurants don't want to open and you're not sure if you can make money or not.
00:21:55.500Some of them are opening if they were able to get the loan because they're able to run the restaurant without staffing costs for a couple of months.
00:22:14.880And it'll help us bridge this gap as we kind of poke our noses out of the door and make sure nothing bad is going to happen as we reopen this thing and do it in a methodical way.
00:32:10.300But at this point, people should be happy.
00:32:12.480Americans should be content with good news.
00:32:14.820And they're actually mad when you just send them out the raw numbers from the counties that are actually doing the antibody testing.
00:32:21.480So I have to tell you, Stephen, how many of us are going to not go to work because if you have a minimum wage job, you're making more money on unemployment.
00:32:32.860You're hearing Nancy Pelosi say, we want to give everybody $2,000 a month.
00:32:38.000At 16 years of age and above, everybody gets $2,000 a month.
00:32:45.620I can't even imagine at 16 years old getting a check every month for $2,000.
00:32:51.380I'll tell you this, and this is where I get a little conspiratorial.
00:32:54.800Under Donald Trump, it's the first time ever in modern American history that I know of that the average hourly earnings actually outpaced 5%.
00:33:01.740Now, we know that's not an accurate metric of when people say, well, the wages have an outpaced inflation.
00:33:06.460They actually have to look at individual annual income, and it's always been pretty good.
00:33:10.120But for the first time ever, average hourly earnings, meaning people working at McDonald's, meaning people working at any fast food joint or a waiter, they were making more than ever before.
00:33:18.720And I think in order for people to not see the fruits of that labor in this robust economy, what's the best way to do it?
00:33:24.500Rather than arguing with the numbers, which they can't do, is give people more than they would make at the minimum wage jobs, which were steadily increasing.
00:33:31.080Otherwise, people would see it and go, hold on a second, I'm working at McDonald's.
00:33:33.720A fillet of fish slapped together today really isn't worth any more than slapped together in 1975.
00:33:37.820It should be right on pace with inflation as far as I'm concerned, but it's not.
00:33:57.920I think I wish that he would, when he does these promotional press briefings, I wish that he would just sort of introduce it and then defer to the experts.
00:34:06.160Unfortunately, some of these experts aren't always experts.
00:34:08.940I mean, I hate to say people say, well, where's your medical degree?
00:34:11.480OK, I don't have one, but I can read numbers.
00:34:18.500And now we're seeing numbers from doctors who are currently seeing patients in these counties.
00:34:23.440And there's a very wide gap between the theoretical and the practical, real-life world experiences.
00:34:28.880So I'd give Donald Trump probably about a B- right now, especially in the face of who.
00:34:33.480I hope that after this, you know, we go back to being a little more presidential and focusing on the election and the issues that matter, which isn't the virus.
00:34:42.980So you tweeted, I don't think Joe Biden is guilty at this point.
00:34:47.560I think there isn't enough evidence to show that Joe Biden is guilty at this point.
00:34:51.780But it's fun to think that he's guilty.
00:35:37.580Well, Google thinks he's guilty enough to remove the Larry King episode where Tara Reade's mother called in and then restructure all the episodes thereafter.
00:35:47.020We have one missing day in August in 93 or 95, but we don't have a skipped numbered episode.
00:37:21.180Well, these are guys actually treating people in a major city on the front lines and are offering up their information.
00:37:27.500And they were questioned, by the way, by some pretty hostile people.
00:37:30.680It wasn't like they just decided to open this up to softballs.
00:37:33.880I can't think of anything that would be more appropriate right now than people who are qualified medical professionals who are treating patients in the real world, actually disclosing the numbers and their experiences.
00:37:47.180If that's against community guidelines, then listen, Chinese propaganda is is the new community guideline alive and well.
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00:59:36.440Anyway, she she's on Blaze TV and she's covering Corona virus kind of like we were in our last special about how the the environmentalists are just loving covid-19 and and working to make sure that we never go back to work.
00:59:56.640Let me give you this tweet or this comment from former Wall Street Journal columnist and climate activist Eric Holthaus.
01:00:09.960This is the same pace that the IPCC says we need to sustain every year until 2030 to be on pace to limit global warming to one point five degrees Celsius and hit the the Paris climate goals.
01:00:27.540This is what rapid, this is what rapid, this is what rapid, far reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society looks like.
01:00:36.900We need to take some serious time and energy during this pandemic to see which parts of this new way of living we can keep.
01:00:43.220We can build a better world for everyone out of the ashes of the old one.
01:00:47.460Holy mother, you're you're saying that shutting down the entire world and putting the entire world into a depression where we have now famine coming for a good part of the world in the next year.
01:01:06.160We have hunger problems and people at homeless shelters and food kitchens and soup kitchens.
01:01:45.700We did some of the old quotes from environmentalists where they actually advocate and hope for outwardly a virus to come and wipe out the population because it will help the Earth.
01:01:57.360This is something they've been actually outwardly asking for for quite some time.
01:02:02.400Obviously, it's the extremes who would admit that in front of cameras or on their keyboards.
01:02:08.320But still, the fact that you have anybody who's actively asking for a virus to come back and wipe out humanity to solve the Earth's problems, that's a problem with your movement, is it not?
01:02:54.200All right, we've taken a pretty good beating here in the last few weeks, and I'm sure, like, you know, millions of other Americans, we're all feeling the effects of it.
01:03:06.960If you're one of those people who are trying to sell a house or to buy one or both, I'm sure it seems pretty scary right now.
01:03:13.060But now is the time to buy or sell your house.
01:03:19.340If you have to sell your house, now is the time.
01:03:21.640It's going to get harder to get loans.
01:04:32.940What we do now, what we have done over the last few weeks and how we react to this in the coming months will be studied by historians for a very, very long time.
01:04:44.220Uh, this is the biggest event, uh, probably since World War II.
01:05:00.860I mean, I can't think of anything, uh, bigger than, uh, than this.
01:05:05.220Um, it is unprecedented and we need to keep journals and we need to make records.
01:05:13.460Uh, and this is the first time, I mean, I've always been interested in StoryCorps because I thought, oh, that it would be really cool to do and have conversations and have them on record at the National Archives, et cetera, et cetera.
01:05:27.200So those people could go by, you know, a hundred years from now and they'll see what we were saying to each other.
01:05:32.780Um, but this is the first time that I thought having my family on record talking about what this experience is like would be really remarkable for future generations, even if it's just for my family.
01:05:47.940StoryCorps is something that the people that listen to NPR know all about it.
01:05:53.600Uh, they've been with NPR covered on NPR for a very long time.
01:05:58.200Uh, and they reached out to us and said, can we get some conservatives to participate in StoryCorps?
01:06:05.040We want to make sure we're recording all voices.
01:06:06.820And so Dave, I say he's the founder and president of StoryCorps.
01:06:10.180Um, he was in my office a couple of times and I just find it of real value and they're doing something right now, uh, that is recording the voices of people during this pandemic.
01:06:22.320Uh, again, for history, uh, and Dave joins us right now.
01:06:52.660So you have to, um, you, you bring your, we started with a booth in Grand Central Terminal.
01:07:00.160Bring your grandmother to that booth face to face.
01:07:02.300There's a facilitator and you interview her about her life.
01:07:04.720And as you know, the microphone gives you the license to talk about things you've never talked about before to talk about important things.
01:07:09.760So people think of it as if I had 40 minutes left to live, what would I say to this person who means so much to me?
01:07:33.540It's just this act of generosity and love.
01:07:35.600We've had 600,000 Americans participate in this so far.
01:07:39.940And when the pandemic hit, we decided to make a very fast switch and worked with a technology company called, well, we figured out a technology solution to allow us to do this online.
01:07:53.140I called the CEO of a company called Vonage, which was the company that was the technology we wanted to use and said, we want to do this.
01:08:01.100And he said, OK, you can have everything for free.
01:08:02.800And we built this platform called StoryCorps Connect, which for the first time allows you to do.
01:08:08.100It is somewhat like a Zoom interview, but it's it's more secure.
01:08:13.560You see, you dial, you ask your grandmother to make it up.
01:08:17.280You send your grandmother a link and you go to this site and you do a StoryCorps interview.
01:08:22.500You can see her, someone who you're isolated from.
01:08:25.040And at the end of the conversation, you hit upload and it goes to the Library of Congress.
01:08:29.520So, like you said, we're we're here collecting this primary source material about this incredible moment we're living through.
01:08:39.120And also, you know, I also think that everything about StoryCorps in some ways reminds us of our mortality.
01:08:45.200Right. Because, you know, we're all going to die.
01:08:47.820My communications people hate when I say this, but that's what StoryCorps is.
01:08:52.980It shakes you on the shoulder and reminds you that, you know, what's important and to say the things you want to say to people now.
01:08:59.940So so that's another given another urgency of this.
01:09:03.840You know, it's an ability to connect with elders who are isolated and tell them you love them by interviewing them.
01:09:09.660It's a way to capture the stories of the moment.
01:09:12.860It's it's, you know, two things from a StoryCorps interview.
01:09:18.280And I know you know this one is that no matter how well you know the person that you're interviewing, you're going to find out things you never knew before.
01:09:24.320And the second is you're never going to regret it.
01:09:26.820You and I usually, you know, we've been on the radio together for as friends for a couple of years talking about the side project of StoryCorps, bringing the country together.
01:09:36.200The kind of culture of contempt that we're living in.
01:09:40.220And we've dialed back on that for a couple of months to go back to the original premise of StoryCorps and just help us, you know, call a loved one and tell them that we love them.
01:09:51.420Mother's Day would be a great time to do this.
01:11:00.660And my mother and her sisters, they were all orphans.
01:11:05.220And that gave me a sense that you can have troubles and sorrows, but your family, if you're very lucky and you're very loving, it will survive.
01:13:33.200And I think, I mean, we, we haven't spent a lot of time talking about kind of the core of story core because we spend so much time talking about the divides, but, you know, I think we devalue the wisdom of our elders, you know, and there's so much that we can learn from them.
01:13:46.840And we live in a, we live in this disposable culture.
01:13:50.200You know, it's about everything's, it's gone in a second, you know, and what story core does is focus on what's real and enduring.
01:13:57.560Um, and, and there's no more important time than now to, to, um, to, to focus on that.
01:14:04.300And, and again, you know, you, we never know what's going to happen.
01:14:07.380So the idea of, of saying the things that you want to say to the people who you love, I mean, I have people come up to me every day under normal circumstances when I'm running around the world saying, I wish I had interviewed my grandmother.
01:14:34.400And, um, you know, we think of it as, you know, it's a public service and it's a, it's a, you know, listening to a loved one is a way to say, is a way to tell them how much you, they mean to you.
01:14:46.240Yeah, it's a great thing for mother's day, but it's a great thing just, uh, to do, you know, today just to do it.
01:14:53.880And, um, history as told by the people who are living, it is so important.
01:14:59.340Dave, what he has done, uh, with story core is I think one of the, one of the most important projects of, uh, of a historian, uh, that I can think of.
01:15:12.580And, uh, please get involved story core connect.org.
01:15:17.840That's story core C O R P S connect.org.
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01:22:54.400Well, over the weekend, two doctors in California came out and said, Hey, there's some new facts here.
01:23:00.900We've been treating COVID-19 and we can go to work and we should probably rethink what we're doing because we may be doing more harm than good.
01:23:11.620Well, yesterday, uh, YouTube took that video down 5 million views, and they decided that you can't have that opinion.
01:26:16.860Um, well, you know, we've been treating patients for probably about six to seven weeks.
01:26:21.980And the first few weeks, it was my, our experience was the same as everywhere else where patients were coming in.
01:26:29.520Um, they were becoming very ill on the floor.
01:26:32.640We really couldn't figure out why, um, we had to put them on ventilators.
01:26:37.320And before very long, I just saw more and more patients in my intensive care unit.
01:26:42.680And the thing that was very concerning was that one, I didn't really understand what the process was that was causing them to get so sick.
01:26:49.640And, uh, two, what was really unusual was that it almost seemed like every single patient had a different type of a disease process.
01:26:59.260Yes, they had what we thought was pneumonia.
01:27:02.100Yes, they were on a ventilator, but they weren't necessarily acting the same.
01:27:06.340Um, if I take, if I can take you back to 10 years ago when we had the H1N1, uh, epidemic, you know, at that time, I may have had 10, 15 patients that were on ventilators.
01:27:17.480But I can go into each room and each of them had the same kind of pathophysiology.
01:27:22.620Maybe they were at a different stage of the disease, but essentially it was the same disease, which caused us to be able to predict what was going to happen.
01:27:30.900In these types of patients, there's really no predictability to it.
01:27:34.020Um, everyone does something that's unique to themselves and that's what makes it so difficult to treat because, you know, you, you have no idea what's going to happen the next day.
01:28:10.060I've just been dealing with respiratory infections of all types of viruses, bacteria, even fungal infections.
01:28:15.760You know, there's always some sort of predictability.
01:28:18.180You know, there's always some sort of a disease pattern.
01:28:20.640Once you recognize the pattern, you can make the diagnosis and then you could predict what's going to happen.
01:28:25.140And you could start a treatment plan, which, you know, will hopefully help the patient.
01:28:29.560And these types of patients, it, there really isn't any predictability.
01:28:34.520So doesn't that make this harder to treat?
01:28:37.520And wouldn't that say, don't go to work because we don't, we don't have a handle on it.
01:28:43.140Um, I guess, I mean, I guess it depends on where you're coming from.
01:28:48.520Um, I, I was, uh, initially I trained in the 1990s in medical school and my internship that was during the HIV pandemic.
01:28:57.260And to many, many different factors, this kind of reminds me of that, you know, um, there is a lot of fear.
01:29:03.940And unfortunately that's what we've kind of fed into as opposed to science and fact and logic.
01:29:09.780And, um, you know, people don't want to necessarily go into the rooms and treat these patients and, and see them, which, which I can understand, you know, that there are, I've spoken to many doctors, many nurses, and some of them, not so much for the fear of their own lives, but some of them have spouses that are on, you know, that may have had transplants or on immunosuppressive therapy.
01:29:28.380And they're just concerned that, you know, not only can I die, but that can take something back home to my loved ones and, and, and, and hurt them.
01:29:36.020And that was, that's not an unusual thought.
01:29:38.100I mean, I, the same thought went through my head as well.
01:31:38.620Although I'm not sure at that time that, you know, we had the technology to really find out exactly what was happening on a molecular basis.
01:31:44.920But, uh, this syndrome, what happens is that, you know, the patients that are, get very, very sick, the immune system normally mounts a response, right?
01:31:54.100So if you get a bacteria, if you get a virus, it activates your immune system.
01:31:56.680And then the immune system coordinates its, um, activity so that it can destroy the virus or the bacteria.
01:32:03.880But in a subset of patients, the immune system kind of goes awry.
01:32:09.460And the immune system gets super ramped up.
01:32:11.900And instead of attacking the virus, it starts actually attacking the patient's own vital organs.
01:32:18.840So what I started noticing was that, you know what, these patients that are going on the respirator, these patients that are what we thought was the virus was causing pneumonia.
01:32:27.600No, these patients that are coming in and really suddenly becoming so sick, it's actually their own immune system that was causing the problem, not necessarily the virus.
01:32:36.520Now, don't get me wrong, this is a deadly virus and just like an influenza virus, it can definitely cause pneumonia, it can definitely cause respiratory failure.
01:32:44.900If patients have emphysema or heart failure, it can definitely exacerbate those and lead, you know, to them to get, uh, into the ICU for those diseases as well.
01:32:55.660This was doing something that I really hadn't seen much in my 20 years, where it was activating the immune system.
01:33:02.040And then now the immune system was causing all the destruction in the lungs, not just the virus itself.
01:33:09.020So in a way, this SARS-CoV-2 causes kind of two different clinical diseases.
01:33:13.940The first part of it is an infectious disease where the virus is a deadly virus and can seriously do some harm.
01:33:20.220Um, but then the second, and I think this is probably the more important part is it causes this activation of the immune system and it doesn't cause it in all the patients, but it causes it in the subset of the patients to get hospitalized.
01:33:32.160And these are the patients that we found were coming into our ICU, the majority of the patients in our ICU.
01:33:38.420And once we, once we, once I started noticing this, I started looking for markers and these are many markers.
01:33:45.220And how difficult is it, how difficult is it to find the markers and can you be tested, uh, for that easily or?
01:33:54.140Yeah, these are not any, um, unusual markers.
01:33:56.840Actually, a lot of the hospitals are checking the markers.
01:33:59.380Um, you know, but the problem is that there's about six or seven different markers.
01:34:04.380Some of the markers are important to rule out, uh, other disorders like other infections or sepsis and those types of things.
01:34:11.760And then some of the markers are important to kind of let you know that this inflammatory, uh, issue is going on in these patients.
01:34:19.380Um, so you have to, you have to look at every single patient individually and you have to go through this kind of exhaustive checklist.
01:34:27.920One, make sure that there isn't any other problem.
01:34:31.060Two, then make sure that, you know, to check to see if they're having this inflammatory problem.
01:34:35.760And then if they are, then you have to kind of watch them very, very carefully.
01:34:40.580And so if you're, what we've noticed, if you're, if you're having the inflammatory problem, that's why, uh, I don't know if you're a believer in this or not, but why a hydroxychloroquine might work with some patients and not with others.
01:34:57.460I just think probably it wasn't a strong enough, uh, anti-inflammatory, uh, it wasn't a strong enough immunosuppressant.
01:35:03.320And there's a lot of research that there's a lot of articles that came out and, you know, said that, and at this point, we're not really using azithromax and azithromycin anymore.
01:35:12.100And the hydroxychloroquine, uh, from system wide has been kind of, uh, on an as needed basis, an individual case that where you can insert whether the patient needs it or not.
01:35:21.200But the important thing was that, you know, when these patients have these inflammatory markers that are elevated, if you follow them very closely, uh, you saw that, you know, a minority of them do have this problem where all of a sudden they rapidly, you know, get much worse and they go from needing very little oxygen to needing to be intubated within a six to 12 hour process.
01:35:41.240And this was the exciting part where we can, and before getting to that point, before it needed to be on a respirator, we started treating them very aggressively with anti-inflammatory medication with strong immunosuppressive medications, which is kind of counterintuitive, right?
01:35:56.620You think that this patient is here, they have a virus, it's a deadly virus, it's killed what, 200,000 people across the globe.
01:36:03.020Um, but now instead of treating the virus, you're actually giving medicine to suppress the patient's immune system, which is something that's really counterintuitive, but that was what worked for these patients.
01:36:16.320We were able to now, instead of putting those patients on a ventilator, we're able to give them the medicines, act fast and early, which is, I think, very, very, very important to detect it early and to treat it early.
01:36:27.700And then at that point, you know, we're able to prevent them from needing to go on a respirator.
01:36:34.100And that's what really has changed everything around for, um, both of our hospitals, uh, over the past month.
01:36:41.400So, um, why, why do you think more people haven't discovered this protocol?
01:36:46.380Are you getting calls from people, you know, from other doctors and hospitals?
01:36:51.860Um, I am getting calls from other doctors, you know, and the calls I would say are kind of 50-50.
01:36:56.340There's a lot of doctors who unfortunately are looking for a quick fix, right?
01:37:02.980And that's the one thing I can, I can't stress any, any harder to you and your listeners is there isn't necessarily one test and there isn't any one particular, um, treatment plan.
01:37:14.000Every patient has their own kind of individual disease and we've had to treat every single patient.
01:37:20.380Now, probably going on 30 to 35 patients that we've treated actively with this, with a different regimen.
01:37:27.120Um, not everyone, you know, you can't treat everyone with the same, uh, treatments.
01:37:33.200There isn't a one size fits all for this disease.
01:37:38.740You have to look at the patient in front of you and then, you know, come up with a treatment for the disease that that patient is manifesting.
01:37:46.720You can't just go through the ICU and start handing out these medicines.
01:37:51.380If you give this medicine to someone who doesn't need it, you will surely kill them.
01:37:55.520So now you have to go through, you may have 10 patients in the ICU and maybe three of them, maybe six of them have this.
01:38:03.980So you can't just sit there and give this to everyone.
01:38:06.620You have to go through, go through the process with each and every one of these patients and figure out what's going on with them and then come up with the correct treatment for them.
01:38:20.560And, and that is, uh, last weekend, two ER doctors, uh, from Bakersfield, they have seen more than 5,000 coronavirus tests.
01:38:29.480They held a press conference, the local media covered it, and they reported their findings and said the coronavirus is similar to the seasonal flu for, for the most part.
01:38:39.980And quarantine is not helping build a, uh, herd immunity.
01:38:43.740And they were confident that reopening was safe, but it was their personal opinion.
01:38:49.380Um, this now has gone against what sounds spooky to me, uh, the authoritative truth.
01:38:56.680Uh, and, uh, yesterday, um, the American college of emergency physicians and everybody else, uh, hammered them for this, uh, for coming out and not walking in lockstep.
01:39:10.460Uh, and, uh, YouTube removed their video, uh, saying that it was not part of authoritative truth.
01:39:18.940Does that concern you at all that we are silencing people that might disagree, uh, but, but are not, you know, quacks?
01:39:27.380Yeah, I mean, I think anytime you suppress someone's freedom of speech, um, and their, um, thought, you know, then I think that's dangerous.
01:39:37.120Um, so I think, you know, especially from physicians who are on the front line, um, they need to be able to, you know, get out what they're thinking, what they're seeing.
01:39:45.220I think it, you know, if you, once you start suppressing that, it makes it very, very, very dangerous.
01:39:50.620Uh, the one other thing, Glenn, I wanted to kind of tell you, which is something that we've learned over the past week is that.
01:39:57.920So this virus not only causes the infectious disease, okay.
01:40:01.180Which usually manifests in the first week, but the more important thing is it causes an autoimmune disease.
01:40:07.720Now the cytokine storm is one part of it, but the autoimmune disease that it causes could be anything.
01:40:14.900So now you're reading about all these people who are getting blood clots, which are not responding to the common therapy or people who have strokes or people who have, uh, Guillain-Barre syndrome, which, you know, is a neuromuscular disorder or people who develop myocarditis and cardiomyopathy and have sudden death.
01:40:32.340These are all an autoimmune disease that this virus triggers.
01:40:40.320We've known that viruses can, you know, trigger autoimmune disease, diseases in the past.
01:40:44.460It's just that this disease, this virus does it in an extraordinary pace.
01:40:49.080It does it in a significant amount of the patients, um, that we're seeing in our ICUs.
01:40:55.620And I think this is the part that I would like to get out is that I don't think the doctors are recognizing that, you know,
01:41:01.660besides the virus causing damage, it's triggering an autoimmune disease and it's the autoimmune process that's causing all the other parts.
01:41:11.140And it's, it's important because I'm sorry, go ahead.
01:41:18.840It's the autoimmune process that if we can detect early, okay, we're telling all these patients to stay home, stay home, stay home.
01:41:24.860And then by the time they're coming in, they're too sick.
01:41:27.160We're missing this, we're missing the part where we can pick up the autoimmune process.
01:41:31.040If we can detect it early, we can intervene early.
01:41:35.260We may be able to save a lot of these patients and maybe drastically change what we're doing, um, in terms of, you know, having patients stay at home, having everyone be quarantined and all those kinds of things.
01:42:16.680We're running so late, but I thought he, uh, what he had to say was really important.
01:42:20.360Uh, so we're going to quickly, uh, tell you about relief factor, relief factor, certain types of pains that things like, uh, ibuprofen just doesn't touch.
01:42:30.060Um, the kind of pain that just, you know, you just don't want to get out of bed.
01:42:37.340If, if you have tried everything and we know patients, uh, and people that have been on, um, uh, narcotics that just wanted to stop taking the current narcotics, but couldn't handle the pain relief factor works.
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01:43:23.400Um, we're going to have to, uh, take another break here in just a second, but, uh, uh, I just, I, I, you know, I, I applaud any of these doctors.
01:43:34.080Who have the guts to come out and say something that is not in line with the authoritative truth.
01:43:40.320I don't, I don't think I've ever heard anything more frightening than the phrase authoritative truth, that this goes against the authoritative truth.
01:43:49.160That's why we have, uh, tenure at colleges.
01:43:53.880That's, that's why we have the first amendment.
01:43:57.060Because a lot of times, uh, what the founder said was against the authoritative truth of the king.
01:44:20.020Recently, the FTC has received more than a hundred reports of identity theft linked to the pandemic.
01:44:26.080I mean, it is just disgusting what these people will do.
01:44:29.680Many laid off workers have discovered they're already victims of identity theft when they file for unemployment because somebody used their name.
01:44:36.080And when you find out that somebody else is receiving benefits in your name already, uh, it's, it's really, uh, quite difficult and frustrating.
01:44:46.760Life lock will detect a wide range of identity threats and they work with you to resolve them when they do happen.
01:44:52.880I mean, what do you do if that's happened to you?
01:45:52.680Um, the, uh, national police in Spain have made an example of a man who tried to circumvent the country's strict lockdown orders during the pandemic.
01:46:03.160Uh, they have extreme stay at home orders.
01:46:06.840The residents are not allowed to take a walk or jog alone.
01:46:11.200You are not to leave your house unless you have a pet.
01:46:15.900You may take your animals for a brief stroll so they can go to the bathroom.
01:46:20.720Um, well, the national police have now posted a photo, uh, showing, uh, why they issued a citation for a man who was simply walking his pet.
01:46:36.080Um, he was walking around the block to get out of the house, carrying a fishbowl with his pet fish.
01:46:55.580Uh, a Chinese pet owner has, uh, forced his dog, um, to stay on the roof of his moving car without any protection while driving on busy roads because quote, there was not any room left inside.
01:47:10.600No word on where Mitt Romney has been lately.
01:47:15.800Uh, and it's very bad luck to be a black cat, especially in Vietnam where they are, uh, they are now said to black cats are now said to be a cure for the, uh, Corona virus.
01:47:32.000Uh, and, uh, so, uh, the, uh, uh, the people there are, um, uh, boiling the cats and then, uh, turning them into paste and selling black cats, uh, and the paste form as, uh, medicine.
01:47:52.400Even I, who really despise cats think that is really, really bad because why is it only black cats instead of all cats?
01:48:10.900There is something else that is happening in our society that I think shows our, uh, falling standards.
01:48:16.400Standards, um, ESPN, which is wholly owned by the Disney corporation has made a decision to go with the documentary that they had planned, you know, years in the making and, uh, had planned on having it come out in a couple months, but they have decided now that everybody is home, it's ready.
01:48:37.900Why not run it while everybody can watch it together?
01:48:40.700I don't know about you, but I have a hard time finding anything that I can watch together as a family.
01:48:46.660And if there was a really inspirational, um, you know, documentary, um, about Michael Jordan, I, even I might watch that with my family because it's something that we can all, you know, we can all get around and, and watch a great inspirational story.
01:49:30.380They got access of, for that season and basically told Jordan at the time, we'll never do anything with this unless you approve it.
01:49:37.760So it's been just in a vault for, you know, 20 years, you know, uh, and finally there, he, they decided to actually put this thing together.
01:49:46.600So it's really, it's, if you're a sports fan and you love, uh, you know, watching basketball and, and love Michael Jordan, the greatest player of all time, not an argument about that.
01:50:02.480And I realized this is 11 millionth on our priority list right now, but when did ESPN make the decision that they were just going to run programming where they're just letting the F bomb fly like crazy without editing it?
01:50:22.940And I don't remember ever seeing it before.
01:50:25.340Uh, and a lot of it is like, it's not even, it's not like you're quoting a dictator, uh, you know, in the news and they, they say something and you want to keep it in there for historical context.
01:50:37.140It's just guys commenting on other players and swearing in the middle of their sentences.
01:50:41.780Like you would swear, you know, uh, you know, if you're just hanging out with the boys.
01:51:12.080Um, and I guess I can, if I start, I'd have to wait for them to run it again and record it on ESPN too, or whatever the process would be.
01:51:18.720But it's just a Disney owned network making a choice that at eight or 9 PM to just run a nonstop parade of F bombs with no edits, even though they give a little bit of a warning of, you know, mature language at the beginning of the thing.
01:51:33.800I find that to be a real change in our culture.
01:51:37.080I can remember when South Park did this for the first time, uh, when they, they decided to air an unedited episode.
01:51:43.680You know, you watch something like it's always sunny in Philadelphia on FX.
01:51:46.720They swear there though, rarely the F bomb even there.
01:51:50.840And this is like the, one of the harshest shows on television and you expect it from there.