and for two years i think by and large most people have made a good faith effort to do that. but we are beyond the point where people are, a, able to understand what it is they are supposed to comply with, and quite frankly, i think most people don t care anymore. and what that means in effect is we are going to end up going towards what we were always going to have to result in, and that is some degree of herd immunity. a lot of people will get infected. looks like consequences at the moment are not that severe. people will end up with natural immunity as dr. mccarry has said many times on this station and finally we ll have to simply get through it that way without worrying about what we should be doing or not should be doing from one day to the next. john: half a million, almost 600,000 infections in a single day last week toward the end of the month. dan, you have to figure this thing is out of control and more people than not will probably end up getting.
fauci said they were absolutely necessary to save millions. remember the fact that we shut down when we t did and the rest of the world did has saved hundreds of millions of infections and millions of lives and he s still in charge of mccarry should be in charge i not the surgeon and public health policy researcher at johns hopkins. he joins us tonight. dr, thanks very much for comingm on . it s so frustrating f to read this to read the top line analysis from the study that i m just going to stop talkingsk and ask you what you make of it. well, it s interesting. there s really only beenne one narrative on this entire topic and it s probably one the biggest interventions in the history of public health and this study which came out today from my institution looked at 34 different studies that asked this question and they concluded that the had no significant reduction in mortality and an aggregated reduction of about
shut down may say something in the family s favor if lawsuits are brought. are lawsuits brought? yes. civil. yes, correct, civil lawsuits and the mccarthy s family that we met have filed a suit and the mccarry family and the process is just in the beginning of the proce process, and they i have not been adjudicated and so there has not been a decision. what did they end up recommending? the chair of the panel recommended that a year and a half ago or so recommended that they stop doing the complex surgeries on any child, and that they stop doing any surgeries on babies and no surgeries on babies and no complex surgeries on any child and they didn t abide by it, and the hospital said it is a recommendation and not a mandate, and they continued to do the surgeries and the children continued to die. my goodness, elizabeth. it is a come peing piece, and
they don t have a cold, but have seasonal allergies. testing is simple and aller gists can do it within 15-20 minutes. survival tips, avoidance jenna: one of the tips i was reading in the newspaper, one of the tips was wear water proof mascara which doesn t sound like it was going to solve anything, at least for gregg! maybe for me. dr. mccarry, what about the itchy eye issue. george says listen, i can t do anything to stop the itchy eyes, i feel like i should consider a shot. what would you say to someone like george? well jenna: dr. mccarry first, then you dr. bassett. sunday glasses are really the best preventive measure for the itchy, watery eyes and classic for the allergies to pollen. this is the fourth warmest winter in record, and the pollen counts are so high in march, a lot of people thought they had the flu when in fact they had these pollen reactions. i think that s one of the best thing you can do, sunday glasses
mold, things that can drive you crazy throughout the season or throughout the year. have a plan in place. people that suffer, as you mentioned, allergy shots are very helpful, the only treatment known that alters the progression of the disease. and if you suffer like a lot of my patients, you want to do something about it, go for the long term relief. jenna: just the thought of a shot, doctor, i don t know if i want that shot and i hear time and time again, dr. mccarry, for friends who say listen i ve tried everything, the claritin, the benadryl, i ve done every single thing out there and knicks dollars all of them and nothing seems to be working, is there a strategic way to go about allergy medication and when do you know you ve really hit the point where maybe you should consider the injections that dr. basel was just showing us? that s a good point, because those medications are really the first line after prevention, and there s other things, there are sometimes inhalers, but if