Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucksexton show podcast.

Our two of Clay and Buck starts right now everybody. We are joined by our friend Dr. Marty McCary of

Johns Hopkins University Medical Center. He's got a great piece in the Wall Street Journal, the

exaggeration of Long COVID. Dr. McCary, great to have you back sir. Good to be with you guys.

So let's let's start with this. You tell us about you put in context here in your piece in the

Wall Street Journal. What is and is not true about Long COVID and and how worried or not worried

people should be. But it's also the first time I've seen anybody start to attach a price tag to

this a billion dollars to what you call the Long COVID medical industrial complex doc. What is going

on here? Well look, Long COVID is real. But in the UK study it was only 3% of people that had COVID

and it declined rapidly in another study that just came out. We're getting more research on it.

And some of these studies show that there's really no difference between having long haul symptoms

after COVID versus any other infection like the flu. If you're not working out or eating well and

you're sick for a week, you're probably going to be weak at four weeks. That's not Long COVID. That's

just the medicalization of ordinary life. And Dr. Fauci and the crew at the NIH are obsessed with

Long COVID. They spent 1.2 billion dollars to try to study it and that has yielded zero. There's

been no return on that investment. And the CDC tries to say it's not 3% like we know from the

UK study. It's 20% of people. As if one in five Americans are going to be struck by this Long COVID

lightning and then be disabled for life. That's just not true. It's dishonest and it exaggerates the

truth. Dr. McAree, I appreciate you coming on. I love the piece in the Wall Street Journal today.

I'm not sure if you've seen yet. But Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says that essentially Florida is

going to be impaneling a grand jury to investigate potential fraud in the COVID shot. And so I'm

curious from your perspective. Can you remember a situation like this where a drug has been, we were

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