Nice you got to have a sense of rhythm to do that. I know I know it's a little hard beat off me too

I'm like I'm like a British audience at a rock show. Anyways guys. Welcome. We just did our clap to synchronize our audio

Welcome to the show. It's the VP ZD show. It's December 26th Sunday the day after Christmas

How was your holiday even I? Well, you know, it was I'm on service, you know, so it is what it is

You know, I'm a hardworking man Z. I'm a hardworking man

You work hard while I hardly work and I'll say this this actually brings up a point

So today we're going to talk about a lot of things we're going to go through some tweets

We're going to go through stuff we're going to go through about how tired of COVID I am

But it doesn't matter because we're going to talk about it anyways

But the other thing I wanted to talk about quickly that leads into this is this idea that you can't talk about COVID if you're not

actively seeing

patients every single day who are dying of COVID according to the masses or certain physicians online do you think that's a valid thing to say?

Well, oh, that's a that's a great thing to open with so I guess I'd say a couple things one

I guess you know, I'm I attend on hematology and oncology and as a hematology attending we are often

Consulsed on COVID-19 patients because as you know sometimes they develop blood clots and so I've seen my fair share of COVID-19 in the hospital

So but that said that's not relevant for my policy point of view although I'm very familiar with the clinical manifestations of intensive care

Diseases and respiratory diseases and of this disease and I've taken care of patients with it

I don't think that's relevant. I mean every single person's life is affected by this disease in different ways

From practicing clinicians to practicing nurses to people who are just everyday citizens and everyone has the right to comment on policy that affects their lives from school

Reopening to how we should administer vaccines etc

And I think the skills you can bring to the table are data analysis skills

Reason seeking middle ground compromise some of the things that you champion in addition to you can bring your experience

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