Chief Medical Officer & Epidemiologist Rip Govt. & Media Efforts To Scare Public

As Mask Mandate Looms, L.A. Hospital Officials Mock COVID-19 “Media Hype”

🇺🇸@COVID19Up: In an eye-opening press conference Thursday (July 14), the chief medical officer of Los Angeles County, Brad Spellberg, along with epidemiologist Paul Holtom, threw a bucket of cold water on government and media efforts to whip the public into a state of panic and fear over the latest COVID-19 uptick.

"It's just the same. It's not changed. It's been the same. It's like...two months of the same," Spellberg said to kick it off, backing up his characterization with charts depicting COVID-19 cases and his hospital's own admission data.

"Only 10% of our COVID-positive admissions are admitted due to COVID. Virtually none of them go to the ICU, and when they do go to the ICU, it is not for pneumonia. They are not intubated."

As for a severe COVID-19 case in the ICU, Spellberg said, "We haven't seen one of those since February. It's been months."