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Med school strongly suggest that once again the teacher's unions and the public health officials were wrong. the findings suggest that social distancing and isolation at a population level, particularly from young children may have counterintuitively put some people at greater risk of covid infection or severe disease once they resumed normal contact. well, none of this was counterintuitive to the angle's medicine cabinet, you may remember. now, they didn't listen and the damage is done. now, to children's health, mental and physical, with records of skyrocketing depression, anxiety and learni...

And the cdc is encouraging masking to prevent the spread of the viruses. joining me now is dr. vin gupta. doctor, thankfully rsv cases appear to be declining but we still have covid. the flu has been brutal. do you agree it's time to return to masking? >> lindsey, good morning. i do agree. and this is one of those temporary necessities that we have to adopt and accept in this era that we live in of respiratory epidemics and pandemics, this is the times we live in. masking at the population level we know protects hospitals, protects children's hospitals in particular that are feeling the brunt ...

Much. dr. we kn, how concerned are yo about this triple threat of the flu, rsv and covid-19? what is your advice for people? this is the time of year where people want to get together to celebrate the holidays. >> on a population level, i am concerned about this triple dem threat because there are people coming in to hospitals for these virus illnesses, but also car wrecks and heart attacks, et cetera. for people who are immune compromised they are at much higher risk. in terms of what people should do, certainly if you are in this high risk category, you need to make sure that you have receiv...

Boomerang effect. dr. anthony fauci caused him to get another case of covid that was more severe. joining me now is dr. marty makary, professor at the john hopkins school of medicine and author of "the price we pay." would you make of the white house's handling of this especially this relentless push of paxlovid? >> pfizer's getting a free commercial. it's been given off label the majority of the citizens in the united states. it's a nonimmune people, people with known immune systems but given to a low risk people and the result has been a rebound rate of about 50%. you prolong the symptoms in...

I can't tell you what the worst case scenario here is. is it going to be 20%? is it going to be 50%? is it going to be more of the colony on the bass rock? because we are literally in a situation we have never experienced before. first detected in shetland, this unprecedented summer breeding season outbreak is spreading further every day. the risk to human health is low, but people are being warned not to touch dead and dying birds, and experts are calling for a national surveillance programme and response. we are in uncharted territory. we don't know how far it's going to go. i am really worr...