On today’s episode of The Backstory, host Lee Stranahan discussed current events including Donald Trump saying that the FBI stole his passports, and Albert. 16.08.2022, Sputnik International
so always been the healthcare infrastructure along the border that takes care of illegal migrants. once they are on u.s. soil it s up to the u.s. healthcare officials to take care of. they don t have insurance, they get released into communities, if we get a sniffle, we ll go to the doctor and get antibiotics, they go to the emergency room. and they are told not to be turned away from emergency room care. so it starts to add up time and time again. when you see numbers and when you see 1.2 already this fiscal year, almost 1.3 this fiscal year, a million, that have been coming across that border, vast majority released into the country, you are going to see more and more numbers, infrastructure, public education infrastructure is strained, on and on and on, it s not built for this. it s not built for this overwhelming number of individuals coming in. john: the main point in the el paso times article, the medical center is losing money and those are costs passed along
hospitalizations and the adult side just the overwhelming number of people having to wait six, seven, eight hours, sometimes 12 hours for routine emergency room care for proce procedures or much of our hospital workforce is getting knocked out with symptomatic covid. you have the one, two, three punch. omicron is not as benign as people like to talk about. there is an increase in hospitalizations. people are getting sick from omicron especially unvaccinated. we re getting the kids admitted and the hospital workforce is getting knocked out. we also have the problem two of our three monoclonal antibodies do not work against omicron. the diagnostic testing is in shambles. when you add up all of that together, we ve got a serious situation facing our nation this month. poxolid won t come to market for a few months. this comes to the question about
ways it is more transmissible, right? what type of mask, all the sudden, that you are wearing may suddenly matter a whole lot more now than it did a month ago. erin, could i just say it s a privilege to be on with dr. ranney? she is a hero for me. and her colleagues who are in the in the first round of the emergency room care. thank you for doing that. i actually take my mask off when i get on an airplane. but that s because i wear two masks and double mask twhi when i go through the airport, when i obviously viewed as being mormore more dangerous and that s because the airplanes have improved dramatically in the way in which they exchange so much air. but the fact that they are safer doesn t mean they re safe. and i m afraid that when i saw all three of these ceos, um, i was just brought back to the time that ceos of the tobacco industry stood in front of congress and raised their hand and said nothing here to see. they will be sorry they said
can have health care coverage if you come here illegally, not just emergency room care, health care coverage and the concept of kicking 180 million people off of private insurance, these are radical positions that pelosi knows are losers with the main treem of the elect rale. ryan, quick last word. sure. they re going to be race baited around immigration issues, but like you said, these people that are going to be scared off were already scared off 40 years ago. stop trying to chase people that you lost 40 years ago. it s a new world. all right, it s always an interesting tension for sure. a.b. stoddard, ryan grim, thank you very much. coming up next, the leaked memo that reveal what had the british ambassador really thinks about president trump. let s just say it s not a glowing review. limu emu & doug