They re human just like we are. medicine is a science. they are doing the best they can, but they do make mistakes. i guess there is a line of a woman s life is at risk. dr. phillips and is back with me. i want to talk and clear up some misnomers on it comes to abortion. dr. phillips s talk first about what puts a woman s life at risk? what circumstances lead to a doctor recommending a determination of pregnancy? pregnancy can actually be a very dangerous time and a woman s life. there are a few classic examples when it becomes an emergency one is a life-threatening hemorrhage a hypertensive episode which may cause a woman to have seizures, stroke, or heart attack. other conditions such as when the woman breaks her water can lead to massive infection, sepsis, which can lead to multi organ system failure.
Viral infection. many of them in the hospital for another reason other than covid. dr. fauci recently admitted that and showed you can pretty much predict which kids will get extremely ill. that is based on the prior medical history as well has being obese. if you have kids already very sick or old lease or other risk factors, they are the ones to focus on. young, healthy kids otherwise who don t have comorbidities, why focus on them so much? again, if they focus the efforts on the population and i don t mean children who are at risk, we would be it in a different place right now. but they are not and they put too much emphasis on children. laura: the message that should be loud and clear and harvey, we talked about this in back in march of 2020 that this was a really bad virus for people who had high bmi, compromised in other ways, metabolic syndrome, hypertensive, diabetic, it is
Dr. fauci recently admitted that and showed you can pretty much predict which kids will get extremely ill. that is based on the prior medical history as well has being obese. if you have kids already very sick or old lease or other risk or beasts or other risk factors, they are the ones to focus on. young, healthy kids otherwise who don t have comorbidities, why focus on them so much? again, if they focus the efforts on the population and i don t mean children who are at risk, we would be it in a different place right now. but they are not and they put too much emphasis on children. laura: the message that should be loud and clear and harvey, we talked about this in back in march of 2020 that this was a really bad virus for people who had high bmi, compromised in other ways, metabolic syndrome, hypertensive, diabetic, it is and remains a real problem.
Immunocompromised people. not just 3 million who can t mount a response, but hypertensive, obesity, heart disease. chris, i need to buy some time. why? i ve got this oral treatment, merck and pfizer, we have limited doses, we started prescribing them this week, but we only have a thousand or so doses in the district of columbia, for example. i need to get at least a couple more months where i have more of those doses available so, chris, when the fallout occurs, i have something i can offer people. right now, i don t have much to offer people if they are sick, if they end up in the hospital, even the monoclonals that work on omicron are in short supply. the entire state of texas has run out of them. so, that s where we are. we won t be there in three months, but we can t afford to see the fallout until that time. yeah, only a thousand doses. that s a scary number to me. and obviously, as you ve pointed out and we ve been talking about all morning, testing, testing, testing. i want to check back in with a