Marjorie Taylor Greene downplayed reports that hospitals were packed with COVID-19 patients, saying ‘we can’t live forever’
Real America's Voice
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said hospitals weren't packed with COVID patients and blamed media hype.
- She said people were also in hospitals for other reasons, and "we can't live forever."
- Greene has often spread coronavirus misinformation and is currently suspended from Twitter for it.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene dismissed concerns that US hospitals were being overwhelmed by the coronavirus, and said "we can't live forever."
The Georgia Republican said in an interview with the right-wing network "Real America's Voice" on Thursday that people were in hospitals for other reasons.
"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," she said. "But they're seeing about 30% of those numbers being COVID cases."
She said the media "tries to tell us" that hospitals are "slam-packed with COVID," but claimed that wasn't true.
"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 continued.
Some US hospitals are becoming overwhelmed again as the Delta variant of the coronavirus spreads. Some hospitals said they struggle to treat patients with other diseases and injuries if they are treating a large number of coronavirus patients.
One hospital, Memorial Health in Georgia's Chatham County, told a local ABC affiliate that it had to stop accepting patient transfers from other hospitals. Other hospitals in the state say they are overwhelmed.
Greene has frequently repeated false claims about the virus. She has been suspended from Twitter for a week after falsely claiming that vaccines were "failing." The vaccine has been proven to be successful at preventing severe illness, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19.
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