mayor let s bring in he s also a professor of pediatrics at albert and stein college of medicine. doctor redlener, thank you for joining us tonight. doctors aren t being told to give preference to black people over white people when it comes to covid vaccines or treatments, are they? that s racist nonsense, is it not? yes. that s totally this is something that s been part of the trump cult to massively politicize this entire pandemic. it s great disgraceful. the fact of the matter is, doctors are making decisions based on who s at most risk of dying. that s what we re supposed to do. so if a seven year old with covid and a healthy 40-year-old with covid came in and there s limited amounts of treatment, preference is gonna go first of course to the one who is that most at risk, which is the older person. and the case of non whites in
college of medicine. doctor redlener, thank you for joining us tonight. doctors aren t being told to give preference to black people over white people when it comes to covid vaccines or treatments, are they? that s racist nonsense, is it not? yes. that s totally this is something that s been part of the trump cult to massively politicize this entire pandemic. it s great disgraceful. the fact of the matter is, doctors are making decisions based on who s at most risk of dying. that s what we re supposed to do. so if a seven year old with covid and a healthy 40-year-old with covid came in and there s limited amounts of treatment, preference is gonna go first of course to the one who is that most at risk, which is the older person. and the case of non whites in america, as blacks, hispanics, people who are of color, those people have a higher rate of dying from the disease. so that s where the preference goes.
philosophy [inaudible] the constitution as it s written. he decided the law is a particular thing, when the next case comes along and we support that and build on it. what s happened is is this is not the roberts court anymore, we ve tilted to the right. and there is no, star oreo just isis s great along with thomas agrees with it that row should be weighed should be overturned. i don t think roberts wants it, i think people that s why he voted with the liberal justices on the texas cased. but he s not in the majority in that. the republicans have said they were going to overturn roe v. wade, they said they were going to appoint justices that wanted to, and now they have the majority of the justice, we are set to face that, that s what s happened. doctor redlener, over to medicine we go. it is flu shot season, an increasing talk about widening
struggling with coughing, still struggling to get some words out every once in a while. he s making progress, but he s saying that what he went through was extremely serious. he said his father, who also didn t get vaccinated until last week, as he was inside the hospital, as his son, and he was watching his son fight for his life. his father said, it s not only about masks at this point. he believes that kids should be out of school and virtually learning. i asked him if he would have said that a month ago? he said, no, i would have said this is just like the flu. but when you see your kid in that hospital bed, everything changes. your heart breaks. and dr. redlener, you know this better than anybody. you lived through this covid as a doctor, but i want to give you one stat that really is sobering. this is from alabama. for the first time in their recorded history, they ve gotten the numbers now for 2020, more people will have died than were born in that state.
longer. well, there has been a real-world test, and that s the data that s been submitted to the fda. and i want to tell you this and be crystal clear about it. parents that decide to quote/unquote wait until more information comes in are putting their children who are in classrooms at risk. i don t know how else to say it. i don t want to create panic. but the fact of the matter is that children in school classrooms, who have not been vaccinated are at risk. and you know, i have three grandchildren in new york city public school systems. and i ll tell you, those kids will get vaccinated the day that it becomes available and accessible to children. so i think people just, understand what i m saying here. so, shaq, i was just in north carolina, very similar things to what we re hearing from dr. redlener. there are schools there that are closing. and you re outside a hospital. what, i think 12 kids how many kids? 14 kids are being treated for covid. and some of them are on