In a press conference dripping with a mix of exasperation and dry-witted sarcasm, two officials at one of the largest hospital systems in Southern California threw a bucket of cold water on media and government efforts to whip the public into a state of fear over the latest Covid-19 uptick.
Their remarks came on the same day that Los Angeles County health director Barbara Ferrer declared the county had moved into a “high” level of Covid transmission. Two consecutive weeks in that status would trigger the reimposition of an indoor mask mandate on the nearly 10 million people who still choose to live there.
The press conference featured Brad Spellberg, the chief medical officer of Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center (LAC + USC), along with epidemiologist Paul Holtom.
Spellberg kicked off the duo’s ridicule of Covid fearmongering with an exasperated description of the Covid situation: “It’s just the same. It’s not changed. It’s been the same. It’s like…two months of the same.”
He backed up his characterization with charts depicting county cases and the hospital’s own Covid admission data.
“The numbers at [LAC+USC] Covid-positive tests have continued to go up, but this isn’t because we’re seeing a ton of people with symptomatic disease being admitted…we’re seeing a lot of people with mild disease in urgent care and [emergency department] who go home and do not get admitted.
Of those who are admitted, they’re 90% of the time not admitted due to Covid. Only 10% of our Covid-positive admissions are admitted due to Covid. Virtually none of them go to the ICU, and when they do go to the ICU, it is not for pneumonia. They are not intubated.”
As for the worst kind of Covid-ICU situation, Spellberg said, “We haven’t seen one of those since February. It’s been months.” He said today’s Covid patients in intensive care are more typically associated with conditions like electrolyte abnormalities or auto-immune attack of the nerves that may or may not be Covid-driven.
LAC+USC full July 14 vid:
"Only 10% of our COVID positive admissions are admitted due to COVID. Virtually none of them go to the ICU, and when they do go to the ICU it is not for pneumonia. They are not intubated… we have not seen one of those since February."
HT @Campbels12. pic.twitter.com/AThaOxHGn3
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) July 16, 2022
“It is just not the same pandemic that it was, despite all the media hype to the contrary…I mean – a lot of people have bad colds is what we’re seeing,” Spellberg concluded.
Epidemiologist Paul Holtom sarcastically chided Spellberg: “I would really have to work to burst that soothiness bubble…maybe we can turn to the media, which is trying to burst that bubble by talking about a new variant that was was described in India…[and is] ‘sweeping’ the country and now the United States.”
He continued:
“Certainly, if the experience of our hospital is reflective of across the county, which I believe it is, we’re just seeing nobody with severe Covid disease. As of this morning, we have no one in the hospital who had pulmonary disease due to Covid. Nobody in the hospital….NOBODY. Nobody who had Covid-19 disease as we would see it in the past. So I guess it is hard to get a little more excited.”
The epidemiologist noted that Los Angeles County could soon reimpose an indoor mask mandate “based on numbers.” However, he said, “certainly, there’s no reason from a hospitalization-due-to-covid-push perspective to be worried at his point.”
Holtom transitioned away from the Covid portion of the press conference by administering a final dose of humor: “I’m so tired about not being worried about Covid for week after week, the very least we could do is bring up another potential pandemic and get worried about it, because at least that way we have something to be worried about!”
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L.A. Hellth Department: bwaahaabwahaha..
http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/director/MonthlyMessage/
If you have lived through the last 3 years and put a mask on again,
You have proved yourself to the dumbest stump in the clear cut.
And fuck you. You will be my enemy forever no matter what you do.
The “numbers” they are referring to are Biden’s poll numbers….not Covid cases.
“fall 2022 wave”
You keep using that phrase…
The communists are typically very good at their long game.
Hopefully they’ve tried to boil the frog too fast this time.
Past time to take out the long knives.
I think the rats had a roundtable discussion. For decades they planned for/thought they knew no other scenario but a pandemic would create the sort of ‘unified on their knees’ world that they needed to plow thru the rest of the NWO plans, but it’s failing, splintering, sick to vax to dead didn’t roll out orderly, but they’re all in – so their only choice is to double double double double double down despite any blowback/waking up until……… (you finish the sentence, I can’t see any further)
No masks where I live. In spite of this I saw a woman who appeared around 55 in the supermarket with plastic gloves on, two masks and a face shield. I rolled my eyes and muttered “what an asshole” load enough for her to hear. I don’t understand people who have freedom as a choice and don’t take it. Bizarre.
It’s not an asshole, just a dumb animal in human form.
and a fucking imbecile to boot.
I agree certainly, but remember when you encounter these _____, you have no idea what other medical issues they may have. They may not give a fuck about Convid but have something else, like a reduced ability to fight off viruses such as after chemo, so maybe they’re following a a doctors suggestion on that. I instantly assume they’re Obiden supporters, but leave em be. They might have to reluctantly go out in public.
Pre-covidiocy, stem cell transplant. Zero immunity after that ordeal. Reverse isolation. The charge nurse recommended wearing a mask in public.
Then she said, “It’s only effective for about five minutes, but it tends to keep other people away from you.”
That’s how I knew this was all bullshit from the get-go.
My sister-in-law has been getting all sorts of fear messaging from her oncologists while she’s getting chemo … and I find it kind of strange that she’s had to not only get the various jabs in order to even get treated for her cancer — but she’s been told to stay fully diapered and to avoid people.
I recall getting chemotherapy in 1981 — cisplatinum, vinblastin and bleomycin — for primary seminoma. At that time the doctors said it was the most toxic chemo they had because it was treating the fastest growing cancer they knew of — and, yet, except for the 5 days out of every 4 weeks that I was actually in the hospital getting the chemo, I worked full time in construction and lived a normal, non-fearful life.
What gives these days? In my estimation, the entire medical academy — minus those brave enough to swim against the tide — has lost any and all credibility it ever had … and, frankly, I’m getting sick and tired of doctors and nurses, etc., telling me that they are merely following orders in order to keep their jobs.
I’d be tempted to take out my phone in their view and pretend to make a call….
“Hello, insane asylum? I’ve found your missing patient.”
No matter what anyone says or thinks, no matter how their media narrative differs from objective reality – the Democrats (and RINOs) are going to hype a “deadly new variant” in September-October in order to get their universal “mail-in ballot” scam going.
NOTHING is going to stop them.
Elections have always been rigged they don’t need mail in ballots to fix it
Shut up.
Still just a flu and or the common cold.
A huge steaming pile of crapola…..I am so glad to live in a state that basically does not buy into this madness anymore and that still values a viable, free and independent economy and is not willing to be fooled again and plunge ourselves back into the covid dark ages.
That fourth booster will be da bomb, bruh.
Can you post links to the actual stories — not just to an image of the headline?
TIA …
Works every time. You’re welcome.
https://yandex.com/
https://rairfoundation.com/sudden-and-unexpected-at-least-11-vacationers-drop-dead-on-italian-beaches-in-24-hours/
If you’re that interested look it up yourself you lazy bastard.
The physiognomy of a demon is strong in this one.
Chicago mayor Lightfoot says “Hold my beer.”
NY Hellth Commissioner. ( Another Evil Fucker tool for later consideration.)
FIFY.
Though some doctors are beginning to break from the establishment, shame on most of them. They let people die to protect their livelihoods and special government protected practices. My doctor included has silently gone along to get along. I know he knows better. He still asks patients to wear a mask in his office but he and the staff in separate rooms away from patients go maskless.
Be skeptical of MD suggestions concerning your health.
Some doctors laid it all on the line and paid a huge price We owe them a lot and God will remember.
They might as well bring on the fake alien invasion or the fake nuke war because the Covid sham is a dead horse. It would be difficult to get this country back into masks and lockdowns. The best thing people can do is turn off the news and leave it off, you won’t miss a damn thing. Financial collapse won’t be a surprise, fake war no surprises, fake pandemics etc. Just enjoy life….THEY hate it when you do that.
Went to dr office today and they tried to make me put on a mask “it’s the rule.” I politely declined and said the reason I’m here is I have difficulty breathing, that mask won’t help me.