bhattacharya joins me now. are you there, dr. bhattacharya ? bhattacharya? >> i am, neal.or having me. >> oh, it's good to see you. good to hear your voice as well. you were one of the authors of the of the document that's gone down in legend now is the great barrington declaration. and it advocated well targeted protection vulnerable protection of those vulnerable to rather than the rest of to covid rather than the rest of the measures. when you published it way back when, how did you expect leaked it to be received ? expect leaked it to be received? >> i expected that it would be an honest discussion among pubuc an honest discussion among public health professionals about how better how to better protect vulnerable older people . protect vulnerable older people. i expected there to be an open schools. i expected there to be an acknowledgement that what we had been doing, the lockdowns, had been doing, the lockdowns, had been doing, the lockdowns, had been tremendously damaging. instead neil, what we got was censorship , smearing, censorship, smearing, suppression . it wa

jay bhattacharya physician and scientist at stanford this past april new york city health commissionerned that the a least half of the migrants who poured into the city have not been vaccinated against polio, joining me now dr. marc siegel ny langone medical center. you say this is a problem and there is nor come. what could would he be seeing in the new year as a result of this? >> this is a frightening problem i have talked to dr. vossen about this. it's not just new york city. i know we are sitting here in new york. 7.5 million migrants coming across illegally into the united states under president biden, listen, when we left afghanistan does trussly, 90,000 migrants came here. do you know what is endemic in afghanistan? polio. and you just heard that half of the migrants, most of them pouring across the border not vaccinated against polio. we saw a case in new york state of polio first since the 1970s. wastewater in new york is now loaded with polio and even if you had a polio vaccine you can still carry polio. i look at history through a medical lens. i grant this is a national se

we became very good friends during this difficult time and we were pariahs, both you and i and bhattacharyaas were all pariahs, what was the most damaging thing they did. >> the most damaging thing they did, which was steven -- dr. steven and i both made this assertion was the suppression of hydroxychloroquine during the first two years of the pandemic. hydroxychloroquine what we know now looking at the scientific evidence the studies and 70,000 people that been in those studies shows beyond a doubt that it saved lives. that it reduces risk of mortality by 75% when used in outpatient. that suppression was the linchpin, the key to allowing paving the road for the vaccines which did all of their damaging effects as we have seen subsequently. so, would we have needed the vaccines? maybe, but not nearly in the volume that they were used in across the spectrum. >> laura: what they did to children's education, both things. well, they called me hydroxy color queen and i take that title. dr. rich, thank you so much. up next who is biden's friend done chal ping. jimmy failla joins me to solve this m

jay bhattacharya, a physicia physicin scientist at stanford.pril, new york city health commissioner ashwin vossen warned that at leaslf ofv half of the migrants who have poured into the city have not been vaccinated against polio. >> joining me now, dr. marc siegel, fox news professor of medicine at nyu langone medical centerc . a pr >> dr. siegel, you say this is a problem and there's to come. a o what could we be seeing in the new year as, a result of this? >> this is a frightening problem. and i've talked to dr. ashwin about this in new york city, health commissioner. it's not just new york city. that's jus city.i t 100,000.know i know we're sitting here in new york, but, you know, 7.5 million migrants coming across illegally into the united states under president biden. listen, when we e esleft afghanistan disastrous, 90,000 migrants came here. you know, it's endemics enants,o in afghanistan, polio. but you just heard that half of the migrantss thes of them pn across the border are not vaccinated against polio. westat a case in new york sta