Senator Marshall: We Need To Bring Common Sense Back to Medicine
Senator Marshall Joins Fox News to Discuss the Senate Hearing with Secretary Kennedy
Washington – On Sunday, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Trey Gowdy on Fox News’ Sunday Night in America to discuss Operation Warp Speed, vaccine safety, and the contentious Senate hearing with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Click HERE or on the image above to watch Senator Marshall’s full interview.
On Operation Warp Speed, and how to determine the benefits of vaccines:
“Trey, it’s great to be with you, and there’s no doubt that warp speed was a miracle, that vaccine did save millions of lives, but today is so different than that. We had a new virus that came to us, a novel virus out of a lab in Wuhan, China, a horrible virus that none of our immune systems had seen. But today, most of us have had Covid five times, maybe more, and we have a lot of self-immunity, natural immunity.
“So I think that some people need a Covid vaccine and some don’t. And that’s what Bobby Kennedy is trying to restore. He’s trying to restore trust in the CDC, and that’s what we want to do. We want to empower you and your doctor to make the decision what’s best for you when it comes to a vaccine.”
On the lines between personal autonomy regarding vaccinations or medical freedom:
“Yeah, so I think the answer is both, but at what level? I think that as a doctor or nurse, where you’re constantly exposed to other people in a hospital, then you probably need to do more vaccines to protect the people you’re around. If you’re a doctor or nurse in a hospital, you’re exposed to hepatitis, then you probably should have a hepatitis vaccine.
“But a one-day-old baby… and we know that Mom has a negative hepatitis screen, we know she’s in a stable, monogamous relationship. Nobody in the household has hepatitis. What is the advantage? What is the [upside] of giving that baby a vaccine at one day for hepatitis? So I think that you have to constantly weigh the risk and the benefit… vaccines are drugs, and that’s why you and your doctor or parents and the doctor should discuss the pros and cons and risk and benefits of each one of these.”
On keeping special interests out of the vaccination approval and review process:
“I wish I could find the answer to that, Trey. I mean, you take the hearing very recently with RFK Jr. I mean, we should give the Democrats a Platinum Award Card for Trump Derangement Syndrome. You just mention the word Covid, and everyone you know jumps to their own side of the ring and starts fighting… I’ve never seen anything quite like it.
“I’m ready to get beyond Covid. There’s so many more important things we should be talking about 60- 70% of Americans have a chronic disease. Our children, at least 20% of them, are obese, have a chronic disease, taking medicines. So I think there’s other important things to talk about, other than just vaccines. But absolutely our goal, let’s be as transparent as possible, get the doctors to give the parents, the patients all the information, and let you make these decisions.”
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