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How Much Does It Cost to Get COVID-19?

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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What is the financial toll on those who get sick? And will the pandemic change our healthcare system? Dr. Howard Forman, a Yale professor of public health and economics, joins Jim and Katherine to explain the costs of American medicine and what it would take to bring those costs down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey.

0:05.0

Hey. So Jim, I have a question for you today, but just really quickly, before we get to that I can I just ask you to explain one other thing really quickly?

0:17.6

I can try. I'm just going to read you a quote and I just want you to help me understand.

0:25.2

Quote as a global leader in health and hygiene products we must be clear that under

0:30.4

no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body

0:36.2

through injection, ingestion, or any other route.

0:40.7

Aristotle? Aristotle.

0:58.8

Why are companies that make disinfectant having to put out public statements that you shouldn't inject it into the human body? You know that might seem obvious to you and a lot, probably all of our listeners but it is not obvious because people do these

1:07.2

things when they are especially scared and don't feel like they have other options and are worried about infections.

1:16.2

It is extremely dangerous.

1:17.2

These are things that kill the virus on surfaces by just kind of breaking it apart, degrade it, dissolve it.

1:24.7

So that's what these products do,

1:26.0

and they do the same thing inside of eaute your tissues.

1:28.8

They cause necrosis and death of cells.

1:31.4

Yeah, but anyway, it's not obvious to a lot of people including our

1:34.3

president who suggested it at one of the press conferences last night.

1:38.6

So all companies making cleaning products are having to issue statements saying,

1:43.9

please do not inject this into your body.

1:46.2

Right.

1:46.8

So to me, it's absurd, but it's in totally in keeping

1:50.4

with his total lack of understanding of both the science and the

1:55.7

messaging. It's scary that someone might not be familiar with you know basic

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