CAVE SPRINGS Incoming Senate President Pro Tempore Bart Hester describes himself as "a right-wing Republican that appeals to the country club Republican."
out there as a parent is that it s okay to be worried because there s been a lot of confusing messaging. it s clear that at least in certain spots, children do appear to be getting sicker. louisiana, florida. however, let me be clear, we re not seeing some sort of nationwide spike, jonathan, in children going to the hospital in droves here. it does not appear that we re there yet. it s happening in spots. what i would recommend to the parents of all school-age children in arkansas is to ignore what has been passed in law, to mask up your kiddos until they can get vaccinated. frankly, jonathan, what we re seeing is a lot of non-covid pneumonia. something called rsv. we re seeing a peak here in july, august, where typically this is a december to february type of virus peak. and so for a variety of reasons, mask up your kiddos, let s get them back in school but protect them until they can get the vaccine. senator hendren, what are you saying to your fellow arkansans
and says trust me, i ll give you a vial and you trust me. if doctors were able to use therapeutics, we would not have hospitals full of people dying. what would save lives, governor, and it s not the vaccine. joining me now is arkansas state senator jim hendren, who left the republican party earlier this year appeared now serves as an independent and dr. vin gupta, a critical care pulmonologist. dr. gupta, i have to start with you. i need your reaction to that sound we just heard of those two vaccine skeptics, especially that last one, that young woman. good evening, jonathan, great to be here. you know what i ll say is she s probably referencing all this really, really preliminary data on therapeutics like iverbectin. there is no evidence from any high quality studies that
flexibility to organizations to mandate the vaccine. you ll see colleges, universities, school districts move towards that paradigm. restaurants and bars probably follow across the country with what new york city has led on. department of transportation, secretary buttigieg then potentially having the option to say if you want to board an airplane cabin, you ve got to show proof of vaccination. if i may quickly in ten seconds, separately we need the cdc to clearly communicate to a tired populous across the country what does success look like. it is not eradication. for every detected case of covid, there s ten undetected cases. we re not going to eradicate this disease. low hospitalizations, low stress, maybe cases are still continuing, but low hospitalizations and stress, that s vital. that s what people need clarity on. all right, dr. vin gupta and arkansas state senator jim
ivermectin, which is a tablet, something that you use to treat your pets of a tapeworm, is safe and effective against treating covid-19 in the human body. those studies are ongoing, we re having due diligence here. if there was actual data that the nih looked at and said this is a miracle drug for covid, we would all be using it. that data does not yet exist. so this is one of those strawmen arguments here to not get vaccinated because somehow we re depriving people of a better option. it s false, it s wrong, and it s a distraction. you know, state senator hendren, i m just wondering listening to governor hutchinson saying basically mea culpa, and also saying things change. i ve changed my mind. have you talked to the governor since he s made those comments? i m wondering your reaction to the governor s change of heart. no, i have talked to the