Marjorie Taylor Greene on hospital overcrowding: ‘We can’t live forever’

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• In an interview on Real America’s Voice, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Thursday that while media claim that hospitals were full with COVID patients, ‘that’s just not the case.’ 
• The congresswoman argued that hospital waiting rooms “are full of all kinds of things, not just COVID” and that “we can’t live forever.”
• Greene was suspended again from Twitter for a week for spreading COVID-19 disinformation.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) brushed aside concerns over hospitals exceeding capacity due to the surge of new COVID-19 cases.

In an interview with “Real America’s Voice,” Greene argued that the media and public health officials are exaggerating the number of patients that have been hospitalized with the virus. 

“I’ve talked to local hospitals here in my district in here in my state. Yes, the waiting rooms get full, but guess what? The waiting rooms are full of all kinds of things, not just COVID,” the congresswoman said. “But they’re seeing about 30 percent of those numbers being COVID cases.”

She added that while news reports claim that hospitals are “slam-packed with COVID,” that simply isn’t the case.

“Everybody needs to get back down to common sense and remember that, you know, we’re human, we can’t live forever, we’re going to catch all kinds of diseases and illnesses and other viruses, and we get hurt sometimes,” she said.

US hospitals are struggling as they see the highly infectious delta variant fuel the surge of new COVID-19 cases.

Memorial Health in Chatham County, Georgia told a local ABC affiliate that it is seeing an influx in COVID-19 patients that it had to stop accepting patient transfers from other hospitals.

Greene and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) have been suspended on two separate social media platforms for spreading misinformation about COVID-19.

Greene is in the middle of a weeklong Twitter suspension, her third this year, after tweeting that the vaccines are “failing.” She also likened the vaccine rollout to “human experimentation.”

The congresswoman argued that the USFDA shouldn’t approve a vaccine, and that vaccines shouldn’t be mandated.

“Let’s not turn into an authoritarian regime that forces shots in arms of people that don’t want it,” she said.

Meanwhile, YouTube banned Paul from uploading new content to its site for seven days after posting a video last week suggesing that masks “don’t work” in fighting the coronavirus.

Source: The Hill