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00:00:00.000 welcome to the podcast have a great show for you today uh some interesting things about coronavirus

00:00:04.080 uh who's handling it well is andrew cuomo really handling this well some people seem to think so

00:00:10.500 i don't really see it to be honest with you uh we also have two people who actually had

00:00:15.900 or have coronavirus one is still in the hospital and one has taken the uh drugs uh that have been

00:00:25.360 showing some promise and that uh president trump discussed at his press conference the other day

00:00:30.160 do we have a possible treatment here we're hopeful and we talked to people who have actually

00:00:35.740 experienced uh not only the illness but also the potential treatment and phil robertson uh joins us

00:00:42.620 to tell us about his new uh show in the quarantine with phil he's been quarantining himself for a very

00:00:48.180 long time and he's completely um not really even adjusting his life at this point uh he'll get into

00:00:53.980 that as well on today's program also encourage you to go over to uh stew does america on your

00:00:59.840 podcast app click subscribe it would make me happy probably cures coronavirus though that's not exactly

00:01:06.000 proven yet so i appreciate you doing that we've got a new show coming up uh tonight looking at some of

00:01:11.400 the comments from james cliburn and how he wants to never let this crisis go to waste it's coming up

00:01:16.460 and stew does america as well and here's the podcast

00:01:18.960 you're listening to the best of the blend back program

00:01:30.460 all right so let's get our coronavirus update all the numbers are from johns hopkins as of 5 30 a.m

00:01:39.660 central time total confirmed cases worldwide 392 000 that's up about 50 000 from yesterday

00:01:46.960 total confirmed deaths worldwide are up uh 3 000 to 17 000 total confirmed recovered is only up 3 000

00:01:57.560 itself all 195 countries on earth have confirmed cases the only place in the world you can go is

00:02:05.760 hanging with the penguins in antarctica no confirmed cases there five percent of active cases worldwide are

00:02:12.840 considered serious requiring hospitalization that's steady five percent yesterday uh it was at five

00:02:19.240 percent but it was down in february from 19 i want to make a note here 13 of the confirmed cases

00:02:26.520 in america do currently require hospitalization but that number is expected to drop toward the

00:02:32.920 international average as more people are diagnosed through the testing the u.s now has 46 168 confirmed

00:02:41.700 cases and 582 deaths we are up almost 10 000 confirmed cases and about 130 deaths in the last 24 hours

00:02:54.120 the u.s has 295 officially recovered against the 582 official deaths

00:03:01.780 so somehow or another uh joe biden realized yesterday that it wasn't 1997 anymore and decided

00:03:09.460 to get some of that high speed internet into my recreation room that's a quote in my recreation

00:03:16.560 he still has a rec room i haven't seen one of those since the brady bunch went off the air

00:03:23.440 anyway is making his teleconferencing uh in his rec room on this new high speed internet that the kids

00:03:32.160 are all crazy about so he made uh he's gonna make regular broadcasts combating coronavirus um he made

00:03:41.160 yesterday's from his home in delaware and it did not go well at all do we have a little clip of that

00:03:47.320 here he is the teleprompter broke down and he did not know what to do i'm glad the president has finally activated the national guard

00:03:55.700 now we need the armed forces and the national guard to help with hospital capacity supplies and logistics

00:04:01.840 we need to activate the reserve corps of doctors and nurses and beef up the number of responders dealing with

00:04:08.000 the crush these crush of cases and uh and in addition to that uh in addition to that we have to

00:04:16.300 uh make sure that we uh we are in a position that we are well let me let me go the second thing i've spoken

00:04:23.920 enough of that the president must use defense production wow okay so uh that was his press conference

00:04:30.140 comforting uh wish he was in charge right now uh but he says you know now we got to use the military

00:04:35.680 well yesterday a thousand strong military unit arrived at the javits center in new york city

00:04:41.800 wow yeah but we need the military to start building hospitals well that's exactly what they were doing

00:04:47.600 turning the javits convention convention center into a thousand bed emergency hospital it'll be the

00:04:53.600 first of four emergency hospitals in new york state they should be open within seven days dozens of

00:04:59.580 national card troops have arrived at the jacob javits center in manhattan monday morning

00:05:04.900 president trump um approved governor cuomo's plans to set up the beds in the 1.3 million square foot

00:05:12.780 convention center on sunday night fema will oversee the facility as well as the staff and stock the

00:05:19.460 center is there no more free travel in the u.s florida's governor desantis is ordering all inbound

00:05:26.720 travelers arriving from new york or new jersey into a mandatory 14-day quarantine per an executive order

00:05:34.760 that he signed yesterday desantis said in an address that more than a hundred such flights arrive daily

00:05:41.220 into the state he believes each contains at least one person infected with the new coronavirus he said

00:05:48.000 he's been in contact with federal officials about curtailing such flights but he has not yet received a

00:05:53.720 response he said people will be screened when they arrived and told they must self-quarantine he said

00:06:00.140 those travelers will not be allowed to stay with family or friends because that is the one way the 0.98

00:06:05.320 virus is spread he didn't say specifically how self-quarantine is going to be enforced he said it

00:06:11.560 may actually i'm quoting be a criminal offense if you violate the quarantine order florida law says

00:06:19.600 it's a second degree misdemeanor to violate a quarantine order that could result in a 60-day jail sentence

00:06:25.340 notice he didn't have a problem when all of the kids were on the beaches for spring break that was

00:06:32.180 an obscene scene uh at the time and all the kids were like oh we're not gonna get it's fine they're all

00:06:38.820 now testing positive for it new video from spain shows the hospital triage people are on the floor in

00:06:46.320 the hallways just waiting for a bed videos appear to show dozens of patients some covered in sheets

00:06:52.040 most wearing surgical masks laying on the floor in hospital hallways as they await for some bed

00:06:58.280 to somehow or another become available it's one of the largest hospitals in madrid spain had 385 deaths

00:07:06.080 and more than 4 500 new cases diagnosed just yesterday it has more than 850 infected persons

00:07:13.460 for every 1 million citizens that's the third highest in the world after italy and switzerland

00:07:20.140 but perhaps echoing spain's rapidly outgrowing outbreak the big easy now is being criticized for

00:07:29.900 not shutting down mardi gras celebrations and parades and parties over the warnings of local and national

00:07:36.240 health officials against those large gatherings which came as early as february 8th in the u.s

00:07:42.200 louisiana governor john bell edwards says his state now has the fastest growing cases of covid 19

00:07:49.520 in the world citing statistics from a university louisiana lafayette study

00:07:55.420 edwards said the growth rate of the state is headed for a steep upward trajectory similar to what spain

00:08:02.900 and italy have experienced he said louisiana has the third highest number of cases per capita

00:08:08.900 in the u.s behind new york and washington respectively but the rate of growth per capita exceeds

00:08:15.580 any single hot spot in the world you know if it was gonna if it was gonna break out i mean you would

00:08:23.320 think vegas or new orleans i mean there's something in the water down in new orleans edwards announced a

00:08:30.600 stay-at-home ban for his state that will come into effect on monday at 5 p.m excluding citizens leaving

00:08:37.980 home for essential services there's no word on whether the state's uh 1200 uh drive-through margarita stands

00:08:45.020 are exempt from the order but i think anything that limits alcohol at this time is not a good thing

00:08:51.320 uh nobel prize winner doom and gloom forecasts are likely overdone this one comes from dr michael levitt

00:09:00.080 who is credited for correctly calling early that china would get the worst of its devastating outbreak 1.00

00:09:07.400 long before many other health experts predicted they would on january 31st china had 46 new deaths

00:09:14.160 compared with 42 the day before which levitt recognized as a slowing of the rate of growth

00:09:20.200 this suggests the rate of increase in the number of deaths will slow down even more over the next week

00:09:26.160 levitt won the 2013 nobel prize in chemistry yeah but they give those away like candy now

00:09:32.860 and he ultimately nailed the call listen to this i mean you want a prediction that comes right

00:09:39.080 in mid-february he said there would be a mid-february peak with a total tally of eight

00:09:46.820 80 000 cases and 3 250 deaths as of march 16th china had counted a total of 80 298 deaths

00:10:02.840 so close without going over and he said there would be 3 250 there are 3 245 deaths

00:10:13.720 the 80 000 was almost 1.4 billion yeah 80 000 was the total cases right you said deaths it was 80

00:10:19.700 total cases yeah i know yeah yeah sorry 80 000 cases he said there would be 80 000 they had 80 298

00:10:27.680 and he said there'd be uh 32 50 on deaths there's 32 45 i mean that guy can we talk to him i mean i would

00:10:36.600 like to yeah that's incredible talk to him and he's optimistic too which is pretty rare these days from

00:10:42.660 the experts yeah and maybe this is a guy we should listen to maybe this is just a guy that we should

00:10:49.640 listen to uh now we said we would never go for it here in america but we are

00:10:56.080 what was the thing that you thought was just so disturbing that they did stew in china

00:11:03.740 uh well they were besides welding people in you have welding people into apartments came to mind

00:11:11.020 right away um there was something they were doing that we all said we'd never put up with it the

00:11:17.100 massive surveillance uh state that they constructed around um pretty much everyone there

00:11:22.640 to the point where they were i mean they were going they were giving reporters qr codes to have

00:11:28.720 to scan and to every building they were going into so that they could be tracked they were being

00:11:32.880 tracked by drones they were uh being uh surveilled in every part of their internet access um not to

00:11:41.320 mention the million people or so they threw in a camp which is a totally unrelated incident but also

00:11:45.000 problematic so the chula vista police department in california

00:11:51.640 recently doubled its fleet of drones purchasing two of the machines from a chinese company called dji

00:12:02.140 the police department told the financial times that they would be outfitted with night vision cameras

00:12:08.300 we have not traditionally mounted speakers to our drones but if we need to cover a large area to get an

00:12:14.740 announcement out and if there's a crowd somewhere that we need to disperse we could do it without

00:12:19.880 getting police officers involved the outbreak has changed my view of expanding the program i think we

00:12:27.260 need to expand it as rapidly as i can said the captain u.s officials have warned about the threat of

00:12:33.860 chinese-made drones that they could pose a threat to the united states the company that the police 1.00

00:12:38.780 department is purchasing from dji is the world's largest player in the civilian drone industry

00:12:44.960 but dji is based in canada spencer gore the chief executive of the u.s-based drone company impossible

00:12:52.360 aerospace said he is working like crazy to help equip other law enforcement agencies with drones

00:12:58.700 we just can't keep up with the orders from law enforcement agencies and health departments

00:13:04.540 so how do we feel about that one how are we feeling about drones and our police department using drones

00:13:12.500 sub-optimal would be uh the first thing that came to mind uh not not the optimal sub that optimal um

00:13:20.860 that is uh i mean i guess like you could make the argument in in a case of you know where everyone's

00:13:27.060 supposed to stay away from each other to break up a crowd if it floats over with a speaker it's maybe not

00:13:32.060 that bad i mean i know they've done that in in crowd breakup situations before but it sends a

00:13:37.660 pretty creepy message and uh yeah not in love with it not in love with it yeah yeah remember remember

00:13:45.680 stew we were at cnn and we said that there were drones being used on the southern border or the

00:13:53.860 northern border i can't remember which one it was i think it was on the northern border and they were

00:13:58.220 being used for drug trade uh up on the northern border and people went ballistic they went crazy

00:14:05.500 and it was it was on the border looking for drug people we don't do that we don't do that we don't

00:14:11.900 use drones i remember just shaking my head thinking oh we will and soon you won't have a problem with it

00:14:17.520 and here we are here we are this is going to change everything um tomorrow night we're going to show you

00:14:25.600 the things that are hidden uh from you the plans that are being made the plans that are being drawn

00:14:31.440 and the things for instance uh they are trying to pass in this uh in this new stimulus bill

00:14:38.900 it's terrifying and the power is never coming back to you we have to stay vigilant if we are to keep

00:14:46.740 america and uh keep the country that we all know and love that's tomorrow night at 9 p.m

00:14:53.840 eastern time you don't want to miss it it's our wednesday night special it's uh it's a it's a

00:15:02.020 special on the government being more dangerous than the virus and uh i think every american needs to

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00:15:26.500 this is the glennbeck program welcome to the one and only mr pat gray from pat gray unleashed

00:15:45.460 pat i i don't know if you've seen the very very the very very uh talented and riveting joe biden in

00:15:56.080 his latest uh video from home uh but i'd like to play it here here's here's joe biden in his uh in

00:16:04.540 his little podcast room in his home i'm glad the president has finally activated the national guard

00:16:10.640 now we need the armed forces and the national guard to help with hospital capacity supplies and

00:16:16.340 logistics we need to activate the reserve corps of doctors and nurses and beef up the number of

00:16:21.700 responders dealing with the crush these crush of cases and uh and in addition to that uh in addition

00:16:30.120 to that we have to make sure that we uh we are in a position that we are well let me let me go to the

00:16:37.620 second thing okay yeah go to the second thing the president must use the best production act

00:16:42.240 i mean he is out of it so bad he's out of it i mean why would you let him do this live why just claim

00:16:51.160 it's live just tape it tape it 50 times until you get one right okay and then air it does he not have

00:16:57.340 one single advisor with common sense seriously that's so bad he's just negligent something

00:17:05.920 something something happens with the prompter and he just cannot continue and he's like

00:17:10.860 time for medicine mommy i don't i tend to think that the advisors that he has around him are

00:17:22.080 absolutely smart enough to be telling him this has got to be recorded let's do it recorded and i think

00:17:28.260 he's fighting it off no no come on now i've been doing this for 30 years it must be i think that's

00:17:32.700 what it is gotta because it's too common you know it's you know like we saw the uh the advisor with

00:17:37.420 him walking through the crowd when he was getting that argument she obviously was like you got to get

00:17:41.740 out of this this is a terrible moment everyone's seeing this on camera and joe's like shh like he's

00:17:46.920 right he thinks he still has it and he's trying to hold on to it and all of his advisors i think

00:17:53.100 probably know but they can't stop him yeah it's ugly okay so wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute

00:17:58.840 wait a minute what do you think that maybe his advisor is andrew cuomo

00:18:04.840 just saying andrew cuomo why i'm convinced that andrew cuomo is it wants to be the president

00:18:14.380 and i got the right cuomo right yes not the tv cuomo sorry not fredo you're talking about who's dead

00:18:21.460 the governor of new york i'm talking about the governor i think he i think that's everybody's

00:18:26.580 gonna say look he's completely out of control and cuomo's gonna come through this because he's 1.00

00:18:31.900 already wearing the tight-fitting you know governor t-shirt like i'm i'm in the war room right now look

00:18:39.160 at me i'm doing all these things i was just out building some houses for the homeless and decided

00:18:44.220 to come in here and do this too i mean he's i think he's horrible but he's better than joe biden

00:18:51.280 and i keep thinking this is the guy who's gonna come in at the end that's it that's an interesting

00:18:56.880 one because i think objectively the only reason people think cuomo is doing a good job is because

00:19:02.700 he's doing a better job than de blasio who's a complete disaster but i mean this is there he's in

00:19:08.460 the middle of overseeing the biggest disaster of this entire crisis yeah and he was the one saying

00:19:17.520 we're not going to shut it down that's crazy that's not going to happen and two days later shut

00:19:20.940 it down i i don't see why anyone thinks he's doing a competent job here yeah he told because he can

00:19:27.360 because he can blame the president although he's not doing that no he's actually praising the president

00:19:34.260 which is i don't know the whole thing's really weird because he he made a big deal out of the fact

00:19:39.340 that he was talking to his business buddy uh and his business buddy was all freaked out that the rumor

00:19:45.500 was he was going to shut down new york oh no we're not going to do that like you said and then they

00:19:50.180 did it wait you just bragged about the fact you're not going to do it now you've done it

00:19:55.520 uh and your numbers have increased in about a week and a half from around a thousand to twenty three

00:20:02.660 thousand so about half the cases in the country yeah it's bad it's really bad it's bad uh you know

00:20:09.120 let me let me ask you this have you guys seen um go to shoot where was that um here it is go to the

00:20:18.800 website do you have your do you have your ipad with you or anything i don't pat go to covid

00:20:23.560 act now.org covid act now.org this is uh why your state must act now and it's giving you

00:20:34.920 a prediction or not a prediction it's a a model a predictive model to see the projections for your

00:20:43.680 state on when your health care you know system is going to be overwhelmed and if you go to new york

00:20:51.040 let me just go to new york you click on that you will see that with limited action

00:20:56.740 hospitals are expected to peak at about april 12th and we are just barely there i mean it's almost a

00:21:07.740 straight line up from april 1st until the 12th just overwhelming the hospital but they have they are

00:21:16.380 they doing social distancing and and they just closed everybody in right yeah they want you full

00:21:21.920 shutdown basically yeah right so they peak at around april 20th now here's the interesting part

00:21:29.080 go to texas if you go to texas where we're at and really nothing seems to be happening here

00:21:34.980 um you are peaking uh two weeks later april 28th but if you look down at the the number of dead

00:21:44.220 with no action in just texas they say estimated deaths 583 000 three months of social distancing

00:21:52.720 430 000 three months of shelter in place 5 000 yeah now where are they getting these numbers three

00:22:02.760 months of social distancing 430 000 where else are we seeing that kind of death yeah and you know where

00:22:09.600 because you could say we're early on in this process obviously we've seen places like italy that

00:22:14.540 have blown up but not like this you've seen but like not like that we see like for example you could

00:22:19.300 project new york turning into a real mega disaster right now although those numbers seem completely

00:22:25.080 ridiculous to me but the other thing is we've seen washington uh have a real the early big blow up

00:22:33.920 and then not turn into a mega disaster right it seems to have recovered a little bit now they did

00:22:40.060 it was sort of cordoned off in that one nursing home at the beginning so maybe that was that's the way

00:22:45.880 out of it but this is what i find so interesting about this and why the only reason i have any hope

00:22:50.940 that this could potentially have some sort of like logical resolution is that it's unlike a global warming

00:23:00.840 where they say if we don't act now everything's going to go terrible and every year that goes by

00:23:06.400 where it's not terrible they just say it's more years down the road it's it's 10 years from now it's

00:23:10.740 always 10 years from now this is like two weeks three weeks yeah so like we'll know really soon yeah we

00:23:16.940 can well you should know what's the date today uh the date today is march 24th march 24th okay so in

00:23:25.780 three days in new york if they took no action in three days the hospitals should be overloaded

00:23:38.680 in three months of social distancing the hospitals should be overloaded by april 3rd

00:23:42.700 so you know they didn't do the three months of shelter in place so it's got to be by april 7th

00:23:50.720 which is what next tuesday wednesday and if that growth is as extreme as they say over the next

00:23:58.920 few weeks we're going to have multiple examples of completely out of control situations if we don't

00:24:05.980 have that uh then we have to realize that somewhere in their projections it's just not right um and you

00:24:14.520 know that is going to i think change the way that we handle this yeah we have 786 people in texas

00:24:19.960 with the virus right now 786 look at this no action in the state of new york this is new york city where

00:24:28.460 everyone's living on top of each other um no action estimated death 392 000 three months of social

00:24:36.580 distancing 292 now go back to texas let's look at texas uh three months of social distancing

00:24:45.700 is 430 000 deaths no action 583 that's not possible it's just not possible that makes no

00:24:56.200 sense whatsoever and the cdc's estimates of doing nothing the high end number they came up with was

00:25:01.480 2.2 million dead so this is way more than this we're talking about two states we're already at a

00:25:06.900 million right i mean if you added up all these states it would be much much higher than what the

00:25:11.700 cdc believed uh was possible and i believe the the london uh university that has been you know

00:25:17.160 giving out a lot of the scarier sort of models you know i don't know it doesn't seem i don't know

00:25:23.040 pat do you feel that i i not at all i go back and forth on this a lot i don't know admittedly but like

00:25:28.540 it's i know i never get to this situation but you listen to some of these experts and they're like

00:25:34.160 so confident and you you could tell the difference between an al gore and these guys these guys are

00:25:39.980 saying like look in two weeks we're going to wish we completely shut off society okay al gore is

00:25:46.560 like in 40 years there's going to be like how can you can't even judge those things i'll be cannibals

00:25:51.900 in 38 years and then 38 years pass well that's because of some of the actions i took right it's

00:26:00.020 going to be another six years and they just keep pushing it back exactly but this is like you can't

00:26:05.760 do it it's too immediate there we're going to be you know gavin newsom said in eight weeks 26

00:26:12.340 million people just in california are going to have this there's a way that's going to happen if that

00:26:17.660 happens we're going to we're going to be happy to shut down society right yes you're not going to

00:26:21.760 have an argument this is why i think yeah this is why i think the president said yesterday it's not

00:26:27.520 going to be months it's not going to be months i don't think he bought these projections

00:26:31.740 from the beginning i really don't i don't either i think but he but he was surrounded by a bunch of

00:26:37.680 people who are experts you know he's just thinking he's the doctor himself no nope i don't think he

00:26:43.780 bought into this at all and uh but all of the experts said mr president and now he's seeing well

00:26:51.500 wait a minute he's seeing numbers like this and going well hang on just a sec where else are we seeing

00:26:55.860 this i mean mexico what's happening to mexico mexico they're still there they're practically

00:27:02.540 having a lick your face marathon in in mexico right now oh yeah and and it's not overrunning

00:27:09.660 in mexico now it may come yet but i think this is why the president said yesterday it's not going to

00:27:15.100 be months he's betting on his gut it's not going to be months and but we'll reevaluate maybe it is

00:27:21.840 and he's looking to next week and if these numbers in new york and california aren't starting to pile up

00:27:27.840 as they were predicted i think he's going to start taking the economy and opening it up because i have

00:27:34.400 news for you as a guy who's in the target range pat you're in the target range you know in in italy

00:27:40.900 they're saying if you're 60 don't even bother coming into the hospital we can't save you um we're

00:27:45.880 too overrun well i got news for you if it is my children have an america left and i have to go in

00:27:54.740 and work with a bunch of 60 year olds uh just to keep this economy going and we're working while

00:28:01.480 they're sheltered in place i'll do it i mean i'd rather die than have the nation die for my children

00:28:08.160 absolutely and i think the one unacceptable variable in all this to americans is if netflix

00:28:15.700 slows down their streaming speeds if that happens all bets are off they're already saying it we are

00:28:20.300 all bets are off they're already saying oh wait wait don't panic let's watch those numbers when we

00:28:27.580 see those speeds start to come down then then we'll let you know then we riot projections are already

00:28:33.200 saying they're gonna go to standard definition this is the best of the glenn beck program

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00:29:14.000 itunes thanks hunter howard tested positive for coronavirus he was he's a 50 year old man he's a guy

00:29:22.240 lives in dallas he came home from aspen uh early in the month and he got a low-grade fever

00:29:30.480 turned into a dry cough led to headaches all of the signs and he was diagnosed with coronavirus

00:29:37.060 we go to hunter now hi hunter how are you i'm doing great glenn uh feeling much better thank you

00:29:43.380 very much i'm glad to hear it so are you're a relatively healthy guy you you were out skiing and

00:29:49.860 you don't have any real underlying health problems right that's exactly right i didn't have any um

00:29:55.540 pulmonary issues i don't have any immune suppression issues so you know i had about five days of you

00:30:01.920 know it it was a very very bad flu um but it was you know it kept me down and if i didn't know what

00:30:08.720 the symptoms were to be looking for them to understand kind of what restriction to my lungs

00:30:13.100 the difficulty breathing you know i would have thought it was the flu but you know because of the

00:30:17.600 timing of it i realized with the difficulty breathing that there was something a lot different going on

00:30:22.020 um really the scariest part was the unknown though the unknown of you know how much worse it might

00:30:26.980 get at the end of the day it wasn't that bad but as my breathing got worse as the doctor said stay

00:30:32.280 away from the hospital unless you need icu breathing support uh then we'll help you and so then just you

00:30:37.640 know just trying to think through okay when is when is that mark going to happen we're going to need

00:30:42.620 some more support from here uh from an icu ventilator yeah and did they give you did they give you any

00:30:48.420 did they give you any indication on yeah here's when you need that breathing apparatus or did they

00:30:55.480 just trust that you would know i don't think they knew to be honest with you you know i think that

00:31:00.820 they just knew that they didn't have the uh the ventilators or the beds to kind of support people

00:31:05.440 coming in and that i was really you know supposed to know on when i needed that and so really zero

00:31:10.720 guidelines to what that point might be and so you know at one point i woke up and i was just heard

00:31:16.540 my lungs working like it was like my lungs were paper bags just crackling and bubbling as uh they

00:31:21.600 were just you know there's a lot of effort to breathe but um then i frankly for me i was told

00:31:27.100 the doctors take 1600 milligrams of tylenol um you know not ibuprofen and i took i just had 2000 around

00:31:34.060 so i took that and to cut the fever and i've been really doing better every day since then so that was

00:31:38.420 about uh that was last saturday and it's been uh kind of uphill or a downhill yeah so how how long

00:31:46.520 did you have it first take me through the what's the first sign and when did you go holy crap i might

00:31:54.060 have coronavirus it was about three or four days i'm not sure exactly when i caught it in aspen but

00:31:59.280 i think it was a breeding ground in aspen that weekend unfortunately and so it was about three or

00:32:03.320 four days before i started the low grade fever and the headaches and then that was then day five was

00:32:09.300 kind of really intensifying uh um the fever got really bad the um fever got bad the uh the body

00:32:19.500 aches got really bad uh and i knew something else was going on that's when i got really the restricted

00:32:23.720 breathing there's like a strap around my chest it was just making difficult to breathe and so that was

00:32:28.200 about three or four days of the intense uh difficulties and then it the fever cut inside

00:32:34.180 i feel very lucky though you know everything i'm reading i'm in healthcare world and so i have a

00:32:38.700 telemedicine company and so i had access to physicians and people to help me out to help

00:32:43.800 but even then you know they didn't know either we're we're learning day by day on this

00:32:48.940 so you're you're a telemedicine guy exactly and so we've been providing a lot of support to people

00:32:55.660 to understand this yeah this is i don't think most people understand when you know i i've been

00:33:02.300 saying recently to talk about redesigning the entire healthcare system now is like saying we've

00:33:08.040 got to redesign the entire horse and buggy industry in 1920 it's it's over uh and just telemedicine and

00:33:16.900 the way things are going to change it's going to relieve so much uh and this is really the time

00:33:23.660 where telemedicine can really uh show off and you could accelerate that quickly because it's so good

00:33:29.800 you're exactly right about that there's a couple of pain points that we saw a couple years ago about

00:33:34.540 just getting access to the right type of specialist 88 of the country is medically underserved for basic

00:33:39.440 care let alone access to specialists so that's what we've been focusing on and then you know i'd like

00:33:43.660 to give a lot of credit to cms and the administration right now they have lowered a lot of the restrictions

00:33:48.900 around telemedicine over the past couple weeks where they had very strict guidelines on state by

00:33:54.580 state regulations state licenses uh certain things you can and can't do and they said in the short term

00:34:00.300 we're going to drop all of those and we're going to allow people to get access to the care that they

00:34:04.500 need uh you know during this process and we're not going to worry about regulations that might have

00:34:09.000 been burdensome so you know a lot of credit goes to the administration cms and um you know really

00:34:14.920 kind of our you know the federal people who are kind of just dropping those to make sure people

00:34:19.680 get in the care that they need it's been amazing how quickly they're moving we're talking to hunter

00:34:24.620 howard he's a dallas resident uh with confirmed uh covid19 so when you were diagnosed did you go to

00:34:31.800 the hospital or how did they diagnose you yeah so i was lucky to understand how the system works a

00:34:38.140 little bit and when i started learning about my symptoms uh there was nothing set up in town in fact

00:34:43.140 dallas at that point only had 42 testing units per day to give out and they told me we're only going

00:34:48.100 to give you one of these testing units um if you are needing you know ventilator support in an icu right

00:34:54.060 now that was on thursday or friday and then over the weekend um baylor scott and wine had set up a

00:35:00.300 um the hospital system had set up a mobile unit uh in dallas and so by then they had more testing units

00:35:06.960 that were coming into town so i was able to get access to those units and get referred so i was

00:35:12.860 referred by my physician uh into that system it was really about 20 minutes and just you know

00:35:17.760 there are four nurses out there i want to give my absolute hats off to our our first line of the 1.00

00:35:24.040 nurses and health care responders who are putting themselves in harm's way so they were just so kind

00:35:30.320 and and just really it was about 15-20 minutes to go through there it was a

00:35:34.860 about a three inch long uh swab that they kind of uh stuck into my nasal cavity which it felt like

00:35:42.660 they're trying to swab my thing to be honest with you it was but it was um it was what needed to be

00:35:47.840 done and i found that out a day later by my doctor and then i got a call by dallas county health and

00:35:53.060 got a caseworker assigned to me and it's really amazing how quickly uh our community stepped up to

00:35:59.080 be organized around this so if you had to do it all over again what what should we fix what was lacking

00:36:09.040 you know the most important thing is lacking right now is just kind of access to the beds the

00:36:15.900 ventilators the masks and things like that i was on a call last night with dallas business leaders

00:36:20.240 and what we're talking about is moving from a population mitigation strategy to a case-based

00:36:25.880 intervention strategy what i mean by that is um in the short term as we're learning you know about

00:36:32.300 the this incredible curve of how many people are getting sick so rapidly and how easy how contagious

00:36:38.100 this is we're having to employ population mitigation strategies they're really you know very very severe

00:36:43.920 but that's a necessary strategy just to control the um community transition uh you know transmissions

00:36:50.400 but what we're trying to do we're talking about okay is instead of it being everything being guided by the

00:36:55.800 uh the health care leaders who are just looking at um the number of cases that are being trends

00:37:02.580 you know transmitted and just looking at those numbers what do we what can we do in dallas

00:37:06.860 to make sure that we're caring for every man woman and child and so that's really kind of

00:37:11.540 shift from once you get a control of the transmission to the community and instead of only having a

00:37:16.540 population mitigation strategy but what do we have to do to build more hospital beds what do we have

00:37:20.620 to do to get more ventilators in town what do we have to do to get more tests in town

00:37:24.040 and so we're actually a pretty amazing group of um kind of business leaders in dallas coming

00:37:28.280 together saying what does the city need to support that what do we need to do um to help you you know

00:37:35.600 do you need locations you need beds you need rooms uh do you need you know do we need to convert

00:37:41.400 some more businesses to converting ventilators and so we're working with the city of dallas and the

00:37:46.240 state of texas and figuring out how can we support the community so that we can start moving from

00:37:50.820 you know transition from distance population mitigation strategies to um shifting into a

00:37:56.640 case-based intervention once we know that we've got a control over um that we can put a you know

00:38:02.420 every single you know person that gets sick in a bed in a ventilator that's needed and things like

00:38:06.540 that and that's some of this the conversations that the business leaders in dallas are hoping we

00:38:10.840 can kind of move towards a combination of the population mitigation and we've got this dallas has

00:38:16.920 got this they've got our support from the business leaders and we're going to give them

00:38:19.840 whatever they need to make sure that we can control this um you know medically so hunter

00:38:26.320 were you a believer in this was as bad as they say it was when you went up to vale

00:38:32.740 no i'll be honest with you i um going for a friend's 50th birthday and uh at that point

00:38:41.080 there's a little bit of information that was coming out about about it but it was still

00:38:45.040 you know really mostly was happening over in italy and china at that point and i you know had it

00:38:50.740 and i i had a kid um a mask that had an led lighting on it i gave a video with my friends of me in the

00:39:00.300 air and the airplane with a led uh lit um mask and we're kind of making a joke out of it at that

00:39:06.940 point and we knew it was serious we knew they had to go to other places um but it didn't not you

00:39:12.700 well i had the case i had the mask but it was we we didn't realize how serious it was going to get

00:39:19.060 this quickly yeah that's what i meant that you didn't think it would happen to you um the um

00:39:25.000 uh are you convinced that we are going to see these astronomical numbers that the cdc is talking

00:39:36.380 about now uh so that really comes into the population mitigation strategies and you know

00:39:44.320 in certain cities it's out there and we're working on two-week trailing indicators right with the

00:39:49.860 testing and so uh so what we're seeing today with the numbers or what happened probably about 10

00:39:55.540 days ago so the numbers are are growing up and you know more importantly right now is

00:40:01.400 you know what are the you know how is the chloroquine working so i have friends uh in the new york city

00:40:07.100 healthcare system and from what i am hearing anecdotally uh it is working miraculously well so we have a guy

00:40:15.720 coming on in in 10 minutes and he says i mean he said goodbye to his family everything the doctors

00:40:21.600 gave him the hydrochloroquine uh and he said two days later he's fully back um and he credits that

00:40:29.360 but the press and everyone no one is willing to say that this is even a possibility at this point and i

00:40:37.500 don't understand why this this is an old drug you know as long as it's under supervision uh and

00:40:44.980 you know we're we're doing it in the right way with doctor's supervision i don't understand why

00:40:50.680 more people in the press aren't excited about the possibility of this drug

00:40:54.540 glenn i'm hearing from the health care workers in new york city they're you know from the er that it's

00:41:01.600 working it's absolutely working right now and so it's still a little bit anecdotal anecdotal versus

00:41:06.800 evidence-based we don't have a lot of the data around it um but it's it's working is what i'm hearing

00:41:12.540 from frontline um health care providers you know they're in that we should be making that stuff

00:41:18.220 day and night we should be making that stuff day and night all right thank you so much hunter i'm

00:41:23.300 i'm glad that you're uh feeling better and thanks for your service to the community i appreciate it

The Glenn Beck Program - March 24, 2020

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