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This week in the past weeks, they're asking me to do things such as prescribe different drugs, when there are diagnosed with covid. i talk to them and say right now the safest thing for you to do is take the current approved courses and that's to monitor yourself if you require more treatment, there are well proved treatments by the fda, the cdc, the nih, that includes things such as monoclonal antibodies, if you have to be hospitalized will give you higher floor oxygen, will even give you steroids. there are other treatments that we can use that are very well established that have safe parame...

Diseases of society of america, they have a statement out there recommending against the use for covid-19 unless this is for clinical trials. >> so, yet, you got this thing that can be toxic to human beings and vaccinated and unvaccinated people i understand are asking you for it on a daily basis. when someone comes to you and asks for it, what are their reasons for wanting the drug and how do you respond? how do you have this conversation with them? >> yes, erin. this is a great question. i think there is possibly a lot of misinformation out there and maybe there is some mistrust. i think tha...

There are two clinical trials in the u.s. enrolling volunteers nationwide and so one is sponsored by the nih, the active six study. the website is active six study.org and university consortium led in minnesota that is the covid out.com trial. both of these will ship ivermectin to their homes if approved. they can get monoclonal antibodies that have a 70% reduction in hospitalization. can we do better than this? people are, if they want to help society try to find answers, there are these trials available. >> to be clear, your job is to test and trial to find new treatments and sometimes they ...

Option to not wear it. the risk/benefit ratio isn't there. >> bill: different states have different rules for masks and we're trying to work through this. what would be your expectation with school back in very soon. >> well, the cdc guideline was pretty stern. with zero data. there is only one inconclusive study out there on masks and kids and no study funded by the nih's $42 billion a year budget. yet we had a very vigorous recommendation that all kids k-12 should be wearing a mask regardless of vaccination status. i would tell parents out there see how your kid does with mask. when the kid ...

Down that the public health interest of the students k-12 was to case them in face-to-face learning. there's a variety of negative public health consequences. that happened as a consequence of doing virtual learning. i think it's imperative that we get the kids back to face-to-face learning and do all we can to keep them there. >> here's dr. marty makary. he said we don't have the information. no studies have been done that tell us whether or not kids should be masked. are they safer when they're masked in the school environment? here's what he had to say. get your thoughts on the other side. ...