The TV star has been making some wild claims about the pandemic on Fox News, which one epidemiologist calls 'shortsighted and unhelpful.'
of coronavirus and erroneously compared the deaths attributed to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, to other causes of death.
Dr. Christopher Gill, an infectious disease specialist and associate professor of global health at Boston University, called McGraw’s argument both “silly” and “shortsighted and unhelpful.” “If we were to take Dr. Phil’s advice and do nothing because the [COVID-19] deaths SO FAR are much smaller than the smoking deaths, then the math is pretty clear that before too long the [COVID-19] deaths could actually be much higher than smoking deaths, which would be catastrophic,” Gill said.
Monto went on to say that, while social distancing is “a blunt instrument,” it’s crucial “to flatten the demand for medical management” and “it is all we have.”
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