marc siegel. physician, associate process or at the nyu langone medical center, and also part of our fox news family here is a contributor. he is "outnumbered," as we say. dr. siegel, i will start with you, and what we know to be the world leaning on the united states at certain times. not only with our dollars, we lead. what do you think about defunding, whether it's temporary or longer-term than that, the w.h.o.? what impact do you think that has globally? >> dr. siegel: it's a very bold move, and i think it's getting a lot of attention. keep in mind, here are some of the world health organization get 16% of its funding from the united states. i think what president trump is referring to is a disgrace that went on where, in late january, whenever this virus really started emerging from china -- we don't now -- at first they were saying it wasn't transmissible human to human. then they were saying it's a regional problem only. back at the end of january, i was saying it sounds like a pandemic. 1.

siegel? >> dr. siegel: well, yes.ut i also think that the most important places are the hot spots, where we are seeing most of the cases. of course, you can then say there are emerging hot spots, and one of the biggest problems with covid-19's, as cdc says, 25% of people are a symptomatic. this probably an additional 25% to have mild symptoms and don't even know they have it. they are busy spreading it, as per that article we just talked about it. with all of that going on, the only way you can be sure you aren't getting this is to stay at home. i would answer that, that i think the rapid tests that are coming out over the next couple weeks to both identify the virus more quickly without as much protective equipment necessary and to check immunity, those tests are going to be additional tools that are going to help us decide how to govern this whole issue of people staying at home. i'm not saying we are going to loosen that, but that will help us flatten the curve even more. when we have the rapid testing, when we hav

siegel? >> dr. siegel: melissa, you're the economics expert. first of all, though, i will say i think we can reopen piece by piece, and preserve social distancing. look, a restaurant that is doing take out only can figure out a way to reopen by reorganizing things. it's much better for the restaurant to have people in the restaurant and then to remain on this take out only were completely closed. i don't know exactly what rules of social distancing we are going to need going forward. we say 6 feet, but that virus spreads even farther than 6 feet. all of it has to do with knowing who has it and what areas of the country we're talking about. montana, there are so few cases. why should we have the same rules in place for montana or nebraska or north dakota? i think the bulk of this covid-19 is in the northeast, the bulk of it, and the west coast. some of it in cities, sporadically. most of it is in cities and we have to take that into account. i do think we have to reopen restaurants with social distancing. >> melissa: we tend to have an urban cen

siegel? >> dr. siegel: well, dr. fauci -- this is an evolving situation. dr. fauci is talking about an article, a study that was just published in "nature medicine," one of our top journals. it referred to the idea, the fact that you are literally spewing this virus. respiratory droplets still, harris, but you are spewing it even when you speak and much more easily than we had realized. we are realizing how highly contagious this is. to see him move on this, it's clearly something we have to move on, as well. i have a concern, though, about

siegel: i think it's extremely fair.gal, the medical, there was a camouflaging of information. and i'm not talking entirely about the chinese scientists. mainly the government. chinese scientists were suppressed in terms of releasing information. if you recall, it whistle-blower was forced to sign a document in the middle of the night under police duress that he was not telling the truth when he first revealed covid-19. that was just the beginning. there was a suppression of information, the world health organization was involved in this. we never knew how infectious are contagious this was. we didn't know that it spread to europe. we had no idea how many people were dying from this in china. we still don't know that. we don't know how many people were hospitalized. we are learning here, in real time, just how severe this virus is. just how it affects all organ systems of the body. we didn't learn that from china, about the blood clotting, the inflammation. this is far worse and far more contagious than we ever expected,

siegel? >> dr. siegel: well, that's a very interesting question.urrently in development -- and there's about ten different candidates, all based on very advanced technology -- but all the vaccines we have ten to make everybody feel a tiny bit ill for the first 12 hours. not everybody, but a lot of people. i bet everybody out there thinking, "i wish we had a vaccine, i'm hoping it is squashed as a result of what we are going through right now." the direct answer to the question, by the way, whether one vaccine will work for several years or whether he will need a different vaccine every year. it will depend on whether this virus spins off subtypes or not. it's an unstable type of virus, like the flu, that could. so far it hasn't. right now it looks like the vaccine we come up with might work for more than a year. but if we get different versions of it, we will need to do it every year. >> harris: all right. richard a as this question. >> because we are taking all these extreme measures to kill the virus and other bacteria for an extended period of t

siegel and he can be off on his way.eauty of the rapid test is that they can be used in multiple ways. at my particular hospital, we use it for inpatients and for inpatients coming into the emergency room who need to be quickly assessed whether they have the infection are not so they can be placed in the particular area of the hospital, it is invaluable in that sense and it concerns ppe. we know who we have to be cautious about. >> tucker: it makes total sense and we will be back in just a minute to find out what happens, thank you. appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> tucker: as of right now, our political leaders are using what are turning out to be a enormously disruptive shutdowns, 20 million people out of work as the only strategy to halt the spread of coronavirus. dr. robert epstein's research of the american institute for behavioral research and technology thinks he may have come across a better way to do that and he joins us tonight. thanks a lot for coming on. what would be a wiser way to save american live

siegel, it's dagen. one thing talked about that anybody wants to get back to work and have this economy reopened , but number one on the list, even beginning those steps, is a steep drop. a sharp reduction in infections. also, the serology test, to test for antibodies, which should be coming out in a few weeks according to the cdc. in terms of the infection, how much of a drop do we need to see before we can really start moving toward a more normal way of life? >> dr. siegel: dagen, i would answer that question in a different way then you ask it. i think i want to see how much immunity there is. in other words, how many people are recovering? it is such a big hole here in the situation, that we are basically cordoning off all of society and assuming everybody has this virus rather than testing everybody and figuring out who actually has it and who has recovered from it. people that have gotten over it that can return to work. so we need that serology test to help guide us. have you had an infection? are

marc siegel.ocus through what this is, how you administer it, what happens next. >> so this is a rapid diagnostic test that will generate an accurate diagnosis within 5 minutes if the patient is positive for covid and up to 13 minutes if they are negative. and it's the only test out there that is rapid in that degree of speed. >> tucker: how do you administer it? >> so the way it works is that dr. siegel here is kind enough to be our patient for this evening and had actually complained of a bit of a cough and is thinking about going back in the words at nyu, so we thought it would be a good idea to definitively rule him out for covid and we are going to use the abbott hearing get a result within a few minutes. so the way it works is that we will swab him and put it in the instrument and i'm just putting on my ppe here because this is a potentially infectious process, and we want adhere to all of our ppe guidelines. so the first step here is we will take a swab. okay, so the swab is all set n now.

siegel: it's fascinating. i think it's a study -- first of all, it's a study out of china where they stopped it because they didn't have enough people enrolled. that's number one. number two, and this is the most important thing, they were studying remdesivir late in the process. late, after patients already were hospitalized, where they already had the inflammation in their lungs and other organs in the body. they already had blood clotting problems. it might not be effective at that point in the process, but might be effective earlier on. that still remains to be seen. there are many studies going around the united states on that and around the world. i do not conclude from this that remdesivir is not a useful treatment. remdesivir is an antiviral drug. if it's going to help you, it would likely help you before the virus takes off. that's what i think, but we don't have the answer on that yet. this does not answer that question. >> harris: dr. devi, as i come to you, i'm wondering -- there's also a list of m

siegel, when we get outside? >> dr. siegel: well, you know, this is to your point.ect the dots, so i'm glad to give me a second shot at it. the more we don't listen to these restrictions and guidelines, the more we get outside and forget that we are supposed to say way from each other, the more cases were going to get, and the more cases we get, we are going to get plenty of mild ones, but the more cases beget, harris, the war people are going to end up hospitalized. even if it's simply because somebody with a very mild case or in asymptomatic case spreads it is somebody much more at ris. >> harris: all right. doctors, thank you for tackling the very big headline today. we appreciate your time. dr. siegel, dr. makary. sit by. this is an issue all of us have talked about. tomorrow, we'll be talking about the issue of mental health in an hour-long special, "america copes together: a virtual town hall." i will talk with psychologists, health care workers come every day americans, to highlight the psychological effects that the coronavirus crisis has had on families. pe

was trained at the same hospital where sheldon siegel carried on his research. i was thrilled with the project for the research going. and hope to find daughter and her boy or girl before birth. either produce a girl of course. prenatal sex determination was the biggest breakthrough in population control this way girls were aborted on mass and birth rates were duce 2 fold fewer babies were being born and fewer girls that could later bear children. daughters are weeded out in china as well one in 5 boys presently born one later not be able to find a wife mother so worried they advertise it countless marriage markets for their surplus sons in shanghai there's such a market every sunday in people's part. was it the us or so that aware we were we. were under the. window you know. how many. man high past. power that they are how much how we when. they are why is it we seen. or heard you had some insight. should insist jacen says that. these are mothers who have only one son because they were permitted to have only one child this was the chinese strategy for populatio

marc siegel to the state of nebraska.e was there he told us about other than it obscure a drug that were studying. >> this hospital is at the very nucleus of the american effort to defeat the disease. they just started political trials for a remdesivir, and antiviral medicine. we spoke to dr. andre kalil who is running the trials and he's optimistic. >> i think the data that we have available suggest it's promising. >> tucker: two months later that research appears to be bring some fruit. dr. marc siegel rejoined us tonight with an update. dr.? >> tucker, we have good news tonight both on the treatment front and then on the vaccine front. on the treatment front, dr. khalil turned out to be very protective because of thousand patients later at 66 centers around europe and asia, remdesivir is shown to reduce recovery time which is crucial, reducing from 14-11 days which shows its decreasing viral replication in the body. but these are hospitalized patients and they have lung problems and are responding it looks like in a ma

siegel talked about, a cardiac procedure going wrong.an defectors talking about another possibility, which is that he was dealing with a cruise missile launch that went wrong. whatever it is, they're breaking patterns of behavior in north korea and that means we know something is w amiss. >> tucker: the south korean government, obviously a close ally of united states and i think for good reason. is it possible they are lying about this? governments lie including the south korean government. if they are lying, why would they lie about that? >> the south korean government has a determined plan, pursuing to show that the north korean leader is much too determined -- it raises suspicions. his whole policy is dependent on kim jong un reciprocating gestures soel, because he wants to abolish south korea. unify the korean states. i think what they're trying to do, act like a reliable partner and they can't do it if he has a cardiac procedure. >> tucker: hard to do that if he is dead. gordon chang, great to see you tonight. thank you for that. >>

siegel, dr. birx and dr.nted the data they looked at the modeling and, you know, there's a good case scenario if we do the mitigation, there's a bad case scenario if we don't do so much and so going forward, our approach to it is going to impact all of us. here are both of them yesterday, from the white house. listen to this. >> that can skew to a higher peak and more significant mortality. if all of the other states are able to hold that case number down, then it's a very different picture, but you have to predict on the data you have which is heavily skewed to new york and new jersey. >> the cluster of other cities that are not new york and not new jersey, if we can suppress that from any kind of a spike, the numbers could be significantly lower than what we're talking about. steve: and dr. siegel that sounds good, dr. fauci said it's tough, it's inconvenient but what we're doing is the answer. >> you know, steve, i think that's extremely important that we focus on other cities in addition to new york, wher

siegel on new potential cure is to treat coronavirus. first, some are asking this question, when will these lockdowns come to an end? are they extending beyond their usefulness? these are fair questions that aren't being asked enough and that we will ask them after the break. go to 2020census.gov and respond today to make america's tomorrow brighter. it's time to shape our future. dr. about the ms: whyspread of coronavirus?are well we know that people with underlying medical conditions over the age of 60 are at highest risk, but they've got to get it from somebody. dr. deborah birx: so we're asking everyone to be selfless for others so that we can protect those who are most susceptible. dr. anthony fauci: not going to bars, not going to restaurants, it all just means physical separation, so that you have a space between you and others. dr. jerome adams: for more information on how you can social distance please go to coronavirus.gov that's it. i'm calling kohler about their walk-in bath. nah. not gonna happen. my name is ken. how may i h

marc siegel. thanks a lot for coming on. so is this a concern, do you think?on't know if you can hear me. okay. that was dr. marc siegel, unfortunately we are having a lot of technical problems partly because everyone on this channel and all the others are spread all over the country. in remote studios. so we are going to go back to him when wedi can. the first, we are going to speak to the spokeswoman for peta, so there were a lotot of questions about how this virus began as we've noted and one of them stems from the wet market in wuhan. those wet markets are common all over the world. they are, and all over the world. so thank you so much for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: these wet markets, i saw a piece the other day in bloomberg defending the existence of wild animal markets.e i would anyone defend something like that? >> it is indefensible because covid-19 and humans as you said is overwhelmingly believed to be a product of china's wildlife trade and so is sars. both of these are thought to have jumped from another animal into humans beca

marc siegel joins us now with those developments.you tonight healt healthy. >> tucker, i feel healthy and i want to tell you what you just showed in terms of that saliva test is the next step because you saw the doctor here with me last night and he was using a nasal swab but notice he had protective clothing on. the saliva test coming from workers in new jersey at the human genetics institute is something you could self administer. you spit into a cup and then you handed over to the health care worker and gets it tested with rapid testing, thousands and thousands are going to be done down there in this institute and that's the next step and then we can keep that protective clothing rippin on. he drew my blood after i was off-camera and he didn't antibody test. you know why? because i want to also tell my viewers i have been in contact with a lot of players who were positive and i was concerned. had to buy know what i am not in that asymptomatic group? here's the answer come antibodies negative which just goes to show you, you can th

marc siegel's joint is once again tonight. young man, we don't know his exact age because we don't know his birthday, but mid-to-late 30s. it seems strange to me that he could be this sick, but maybe it's not. >> it's not and tucker, he may be around 36, but he is obese, 300 pounds at 5'6". he has a long family history of heart disease, of diabetes. he smokes four packs a day, he brags about how much wine he drinks every single day, he eats a lot of. he reported last year to me that even when he took a few breaths as you just showed, he couldn't catch his breath. he was audibly wheezing. he has a thick neck, it's a sign of apnea, problems with sleeping at night when you can actually choke. now they are reports from south korea and japan that he is undergoing a heart procedure, he stand for 2% of the time of his age group, there is a risk of a stroke lori heart attack without all of his medical problems associated. the chances are a lot higher that something could have happened to him during that procedure that has led him to d

contributed marc siegel to nebraska. there he told us about a them have an obscure drug that researchers were then studying. >> this hospital is at the very nucleus of the american effort to defeat the disease. they just started clinical trials for remdesivir, and antiviral medication. we spoke to dr. andre kalil, who was running the trials and he's optimistic. >> i think the data that we have available suggests it's promising. >> tucker: well, two months later, that research appears to be bearing some fruit. dr. marc siegel rejoins us tonight with an update. dr. period >> tucker, we have good news tonight. both on the treatment front you just heard, i'll tell you more and then on the vaccine front. on the treatment front, dr. kalil turned out to be very productive because of thousand patients later, at 68 centers around theer united states, europe, and asia, remdesivir has been shown to decrease recovery time, which is crucial in s fighting a virus. it decreased recovery time from 14 to 11 days. that shows its decreasin

marc siegel now, fox news medical correspondent.ve some new news today from the cdc. what did they tell you about testing? >> i interviewed dr. redfield of the cdc yesterday and he told me that they're going to start expanding these surveys around the country to ten different states using blood centers where you go to give blood. blood donation centers, 20 of them in ten states to figure out what the penetrance is into the community. in other words, how many people have antibodies and how many don't. up until now, we've been talking mostly about the tests you do this way and president trump when he says 3 million have been tested, he's talking about diagnostic tests but now we are moving into the idea of surveillance. who had it? who's over it? potentially, he was immune to it but the problem is that 90 different companies are asking fda for emergency approval for their tests and we don't know how accurate some of them are we still don't know whether they prove immunity or not. all the proof is that you've been exposed to covid-19 w

siegel?dra, that's probably the most important thing we are talking about today because stress makes you susceptible to infection. not to mention what it does for other diseases, anxiety, depression and heart disease. it puts you at greater risk of getting sick and always. if you don't eat properly, you don't sleep properly and you gain weight. in terms of this virus, this virus tends to hit people hardest to have diabetes, who have obesity, heart disease or emphysema, who are smoking. so people at home are nervous, if they are stressed or smoking or drinking, they are much more likely if they were to get covid-19 to have a complication and that's the subgroup that we are most worried about. it's hard for me to go on tv and say everyone should relax under the circumstances but if you can go about business as usual and you can manage to have an exercise routine and you can watch your diet and try to get the proper sleep, you will decrease your risk here of all medical problems across problems

siegel, thank you for all of that.>> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: this pandemic is crushing restaurants in the united states, independent restaurants especially. meanwhile, doctors and nurses are putting in long hours at great risk to fight the disease. alina tompkins saw an opportunity in this disaster, she founded a charity called "feed the fight," delivers to health care workers at hospitals. she joins us tonight to explain exactly how it works. what a great idea this is, thanks a lot for coming on , tonight. tell us how this works and how it has been working. >> well, thanks, tucker, for having me. how it works is we are completely community funded and we use the money to purchase meals from our local restaurants, and they delivered them to area hospitals, and it serves a dual purpose of supporting our local restaurants and keeping them in business while also showing the love and support to health care workerswo who really need it right now. >> tucker: oh, i love that! so you're helping -- one group is trying to s

siegel, your take on remdesivir? >> dr.l, i agree with everything marty just said. i would add a couple of points to it. i talked to dr. khalil in nebraska, overseeing this trial. he said the same thing back at the end of february. it looks promising. not a game changer, not a cure, but promising. the point is the clinical trial results are not back yet, and the other question that comes up to my mind is, when would you use remdesivir? even if we think it works. let me explain, harris, how important it is. by the time someone's on a ventilator -- and that speaks to marty's point about the death rate on ventilators -- by that time, you are seeing cytokine storm, all kinds of immunological havoc. you are seeing clots forming everywhere. it may very well be that an antiviral drug, even if effective, that that might be too late. the horses may be out of the barn. it may be that it's not early enough in the game. that's why we are waiting for the real published data, here. >> harris: a lot of good information from you both on th

marc siegel. welcome back, great to see both. >> good to see you. >> hi, shannon. >> shannon: i want to play -- we will get you guys to weigh in. >> we might not have 100000-200,000 americans dying. >> until we have the anybody's test i can't really answer that. >> whenever you come out and say something like that, it always becomes almost a sound bite that gets taken out of context. >> if there was covert infections are that we didn't know about and we didn't mitigate them, that they would amend the defense. if there was virtually nothing there then there's nothing -- >> shannon: so dr. siegel, the question was good we have done better leading up to this and i think the experts at the white house want to focus on what we can do moving forward, saying there are just so, so many unknowns. what you make of this production that the american death rate could be between 10,200,000 people if we continue to mitigate and do things right? >> it's based on a prediction or speculation or mathematical model w

marc siegel, doctor. it is great to have you with us. a peculiar moment we still have los of life and foun mounting dh toll we're told that modeling is change, we can expect fewer deaths in weeks and months ahead, your reaction to this? >> i don't like to rely on modeling as it is. a lots of public health officials agree with me, including dr. fauci, models are only as good as numbers you put in. we're talking about an unknown virus, we don't know, you pointed to this before, we don't know how many people have it mild cases or asymptomatic. so that is complete unknown that would decrease the death rate. i think that key issue can we drolcontrol the number of asymptomatic cases, mile cases then -- mild cases then get our hospitals coordinated so they get taken care of in the hospital, that is getting better, some deaths are now from cases that weeks ago, i'm not surprised with this social distancing and public health maneuvering we're decreases number of cases and number of hospitalizations. that is a good sign, we can do better if we tes

>>stanford university virology professor robert siegel says with certain viruses like measles antibodies to give you immunity but with others they don't. >>so given to buy so one of the proteins that that is the the surface protein than your meal. if you have any advice to that caps and protein, a core protein than you may you or you may still be infectious so so it's so we're still trying to figure out what the posit antibody test for coronavirus me siegel says well antibody tests are starting to flood the market not all are equal in reliability. >>40 degrees and says challenges on the testing front are being worked out in real time. >>it was challenging certain be symptomatic when the community because it seems like these they will probably have to listen to the locals. so that to know. jones that many of us are still trump rolls. >>and in terms of whether those antibodies provide immunity stanford is now working on a second test to help determine that answer live in san francisco. dan kerman kron 4 news. >>a globally there are now more than 2.5 million reported cases of the coronaviru

marc siegel. dr.ck out with me with governor cuomo was not only the number of hospitalizations down but he says he is starting with these antibody tests as a way to get back to work. what does that look like to you? >> i think that's the future, brian. i think we are entering a new arena with that 7 to 10 days after you get infected approximately you start to make antibodies to this virus. the first antibody is called an igm. the next one is called an igg that's immuno glob oberlins, antibodies. what admiral jir told you on this show that he we need to make sure these tests are standardized. people not claiming they can do something they can't. the new york state test is excellent and mayo clinic has one coming out that's equities lengths. what do i mean by excellent? they can tell you whether have you been exposed to the virus and whether you had infection from the virus and whether you are recovering from the virus. whether that means you are immune to the virus is not yet known. but certainly we no

siegel was going to say that.e were up against a heart break and we had to cut them off right there but thankfully he's back tonight. i've been thinking about this for the last 24 hours before i cut you off almost in midsentence when you announced -- i don't know if you can hear me, i hope you can. you announced -- >> no, i'm hearing him. >> tucker: [laughs] i'm sorry to laugh but one of the casualties as we are feeling our way through the technical aspects of television from living room to living room. perhaps you can hear me now. last night, we cut you off when you were telling us about your father who at 96 is a patient receiving hydroxychloroquine. he said it made a difference and we didn't have time to follow-up on that so i wonder if you would now. >> tucker, the issue is not just that he was near death and the medicine appear to help them recover rapidly. it was also the issue of self quarantine with my mother there and no aid that could come in and how they were going to get fluid delivered and how they we

marc siegel, brian.rian: we have a lot to go over especially after we saw one afternoon and one evening press conference one from the governor of new york and one from the president of the united states. the governor says, look, we are still in need. we might have to convert that ship and the president admitted it, too. the uss comfort to a coronavirus ship just like they had to do with the javits center. but overall, the numbers are going down and people thought wow, isn't that great news. keep your fingers crossed that it is. meanwhile the white house task force warns this week it will be one of the worst ones. even as encouraging new data is sur fossaing in some respects. griff jenkins is live in washington to explain. hey, griff. griff: hey, brian, ainsley and steve. brian you were mentioning about cuomo's press conference. that's why the president was offering light at the end of the tunnel yesterday saying it is encouraging that there is a slight decline in deaths in new york. as you mentioned the

marc siegel joins us now for more on this development.alt hehealthy. >> tucker, i feel healthy and i want to show what you you saw dr. missa he was using a nasal swab up but he had protective clothing on. the saliva test coming from rector's in new jersey, the human genetics institute, is something you consult. you literally just spit into a cup and you handed to the health worker, thousands and thousands are going tos be done down in te institute in new jersey. then we cann work on the tests where they belong in the hospital in he drew my blood after i was off camera h and did an antibody te. do you know why? i also want to tell my viewers i've been in a lot of patients who've been positive with covid-19 and i was worried and concerned but how do i know i'm not in the ace in the medic group. here's my answer. antibodies, negative. goes to show you, tucker it -- you can thinkan you have it, everybody thinks they have it and may not actually have it. these antibody tests have to be perfected and right now there are 90 different companies m

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siegel, thanks for that update, great to see you tonight. that we've been covering since the beginning because it's important, local governments have been stepping back law enforcement and releasing criminals from jail. now a virginia store employee faces decades in prison for defending a store from a robbery. he sitting in jail with no bail. his boss is furious, and you may be, too, after you hear him, next. musica♪ >> tucker: in the last two weeks new york governor andrew cuomo has become the most high-profile democrat in america. he has made it tough announcements like banning everyone in the state from holding on essential gatherings and thanks to his press conferences is closer to the center of this world changing story than almost anyone in this story, closer than nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, sand euro because cortez. also it then presumptive nominee joe biden. joe biden has practically vanished from public view both by design and sadly, necessity. andrew cuomo who has never run for president and would never win a primary is suddenly w

marc siegel, great to see you.'ve been thinking about this almost the last 24 hours, cut you off almost midsentence. you announced last night on our show -- i'm sorry to laugh, one of the casualties of this moment we are living in inin the nationwide lockdown is we are feeling our way through the technical aspects of television. so let me just restate, and perhaps you can hear me now: last night, we cut you off when you were telling us about your father, who at 96, is a patient receiving hydroxychloroquine, and you suggested a made a great difference. we didn't have time to follow up on that, so i'm wondering if you would now. and thanks for joining us. >> tucker, the issue is not just that he was near death and that the medicine appeared to help him recover rapidly, it was also the issue of self-quarantine, with my mother there, and no aid that could come in, and how they were going to get food delivered, and how they were going to be taken care of, and nghow they were going to take ce of themselves, and that made

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marc siegel. hello doctor. >> tucker, it's called pixel.ore has a test which you can do at home which now the fda has approved for emergency uset authorization which means you should be able to get it now.o here is what is great about it. lab core wasn't having technicians to the swabs for obvious reasons because they would be at risk and would need personal protective equipment. but if you have the a nasal swab that i showed on camera last week and you do it to yourself at home and they have the collection kit and then you send it to lab core, you can even mail it to lab core and then they do the test and it doesn't involve a third party who e is then put it risk. this is a tremendous step forward. at the same time this is happening, the stimulus package, coronavirus stimulus package for 500 billion that was passed by senate today and is going to be before the house later this week includes $25 billion, 11ti billn of which go to the states to work on researching, developing and validating the very tests that we've been talking about. rapid

marc siegel. joins us now. doctor, thanks for coming on.d we be worried about the long-term effects? >> yes, we should. this isn't a happy part of the story. most of the people who get covid-19 get mild cases. if you end up in the hospital, there is a 25% chance you can end up in the icu and i want to tell you what that looks like. you could have strokes, damages to the small and large vessels of the brain, seeing hard to damage, damage to the vessels leading to the heart. same thing to thee kidneys, we are seeing damage from the virus itself, theor inflammation it causes, and blood clots, we are seeing blood clots in the lungs, pulmonary embolism, we are seeing fluid in the lungs. people don't always get better from this especially with all the underlying clots so we are trying blood thinners out, trying supportive care outcome and trying oxygen out. i talked to dan sterman tonight who is the head of pulmonary. we call them the general, the head of the end icu. what's the key people recovering and he surprised me, he said it's nursing care

siegel, night after night your updates have been fantastic.appreciate it. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: so often you hear politicians say the government should never get between a patient and that patient's doctor, but in the state of michigan governor gretchen whitmer has banned a huge swath of medical procedures in her state. but she hasn't banned abortion. planned parenthood is open for business. why is that? vance joins us and asked talk about it. trials at nyu n and they are itching for a treat. itching for an outing... or itching for some cuddle time. but you may not know when he's itching for help... licking for help... or rubbing for help. if your dog does these frequently. they may be signs of an allergic skin condition that needs treatment. don't wait. talk to your veterinarian and learn more at itchingforhelp.com. >> tucker: one group of victims in this pandemic who, for some reason, have been all but ignored out the many americans who badly need medical and dental procedures right now but can't get them thanks to lockdown. you n

for that we turn to marc siegel. doctor, thank you for coming on tonight.hing that you have been hoping for for an awfully long time. what is this exactly? >> tucker, this is called point-of-care testing. rapid testing that can give you results in just a few minutes. there are a few different kinds of tests, one when you test for the virus itself. the other where you do a blood test, you test for immunity. that is what you're talking about tonight. silex was approved to see whether we can tell who has had this virus and he was immune to it. i can go back into society. we are not entirely there yet. i spoke to admiral gerard today who was the assistant secretary of hhs under alex azar. he is in charge of testing for the president's task force but here's what he said. he acknowledged a test we have already, the ones that are on the big mobile units that require all of his protective equipment, they have a 1 out of 3 rate of not getting it right. they say you don't have the virus when you actually do. as per "the wall street journal"'s report today. that is th

siegel said, the real question here is immunity.will people be able to say i've been exposed, i have antibodies, and they're protected. that's what we're going to look at because were going to watch these people week to week and month to month to see who wdevelops coronavirus. who gets covid? and if only people who don't have antibodies get covid and other people who do them of this going to tell us the antibodies are protective and that people who have them can safely be exposed. now, there's a caveat to that. we don't know how long they're going to last, so for the common cold version of the coronavirus, they tend to last a short time. but studies with sars and mers, the other two very serious coronavirus say they last a couple of years, but it may actually last even longer than that if you have what's called natural boosting which means the viruses circulating in the environment and you are exposed to it and that triggersg your immune system to makeir new antibodies. so you don't get that with sars. there's no virus out there. yo

siegel, it was two days ago that dr.the podium she said, you know, don't go to the grocery store. don't go to the pharmacy. and yesterday she actually clarified and she said she meant reduce the number of trips, consolidate. only send one person from your family and try to only go once every two weeks if that is at all possible. that's really good advice if you can wait two weeks. >> yeah. steve. people can't really wait two weeks. i think the major issue here is to be conscious of things. to be conscious of you who close you are to people. you know, i think people out there need to understand that with all of the asymptomatic spread, people that have this and don't know about it, that's why we're adding additional precautions like wearing a mask when you are close to people because you might have it and not know it. we need people to be conscious of that. it's not about how often you go to the grocery store. it's what you do when you get there. are you being careful? are you, again, going home and washing everything? wa