Welcome to the Eric Mataxas show with your host Eric Mataxas.

Hey there folks welcome to the Eric Mataxas show very very very very exciting guest right

now.

Dr. Peter McCullough he is someone who came to the attention of the general populace recently

when he spoke for three hours to Joe Rogan and interestingly Joe Rogan was listening

for all three hours it went viral as they say metaphorically not in the medical sense

because Dr. McCullough is a very well respected physician in the Dallas area cardiologist

who has some things to say about the so called pandemic these vaccines all very interesting

and important and we're glad to have him Dr. McCullough welcome the program.

Well thanks for having me you know as introduced I'm a practicing internist and cardiologist

I'm also trained in epidemiology and I spend about half of my time in clinical practice

and then half the time as an author and an editor of a major journal in a clinical investigator

so I do research and I have my whole career have been dedicated to you know the science

of medicine and advancing medicine so when COVID-19 hit I knew this was a big task and

it was going to take many many specialists across a variety of medical specialties infectious

disease hematology oncology cardiology since the virus was such a broad ranging pathogen

that it was going to take all hands on deck and so as you've mentioned I've contributed

academically to the pandemic response I have over 50 papers on the pandemic including the

two seminal papers on how to treat COVID-19 to avoid hospitalization and death.

To avoid hospitalization and death I always try to avoid hospitalization and sometimes

I also try to avoid death most people listening I think have so far successfully avoided death

it's kind of a big thing in life to avoid death and so when you talk about this I have to

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