welcome guys i'm dr mike hansen a board-certified physician specializing in internal medicine
pulmonary disease and critical care medicine now i've seen hundreds if not thousands of
covid patients between the intensive care unit doing pulmonary consults in the hospital as well
as in the pulmonary clinic recently i saw joe rogan's video in the news that came out that
he got covid and he took some things for that including ivermectin turns out i got covid so
joe rogan just in case you're watching this video i'm going to call you out on some of the things
you said in your video hello friends so i got back from the road saturday night feeling very
weary i had a headache and i just felt just run down and yeah that's typically how covid starts
one thing i've noticed and researchers in the uk have noticed this as well is that more or higher
percentage of the covid symptoms are starting with these head cold symptoms in addition to
the systemic symptoms of just feeling run down plus the fever and the chills and the body aches
just to be cautious i separated from my family slept in a different part of the
house and throughout the night i got fevers and sweats and i knew what was going on
so i got up in the morning got tested and turns out i got covid so we immediately
threw the kitchen sink out all kinds of meds monoclonal antibodies ivermectin z pack
prednisone everything and i also got an nad drip and a vitamin drip and i did that three days in
a row and so here we are on wednesday and i feel great i really only had one bad day sunday sucked
but monday was better tuesday felt better than monday and today i feel good i actually feel
pretty [ __ ] good uh that's the good news the bad news is we have to move friday the friday show in
nashville all right so a lot of things to unpack there because he's telling you about his anecdotal
case and he's telling you about the things he took you can't come to any conclusions based on his
experience he could have taken zero medications and he could have had that same exact outcome
this is why you do things you learn things in studies and trials not based on anecdotal cases
it's also why you have to control for all these different factors and part of the reason why
covid is so hard to study because you have lots of different people taking different things of course
you don't want to short someone by not giving them dexamethasone because you know it reduces
mortality so that means you have to account for dexamethasone maybe this person got it maybe that
person didn't so when you do these studies you have to try and balance out all these baseline
characteristics in addition to other factors as well the thing about this is monoclonal antibodies
are indicated for mild disease that's fine the other thing is azithromycin is an antibiotic
it kills certain bacteria doesn't kill viruses so giving azithromycin doesn't make any sense
what about a vitamin d drip that's very strange because doctors don't give vitamin d drips for
covid yes this was studied in brazil and i made uh several videos about this already in my channel
that study which was the biggest study for vitamin d and covid what they did was they gave
a bunch of vitamin d big doses to people who had covid and they compared all the different
baseline characteristics and long story short is that giving iv vitamin d did not improve covid
outcomes now where vitamin d does play a role with covid you don't want to have vitamin d deficiency
long term going into a covid infection lots of different variables there and it's hard to know
correlation versus causation but the bottom line is vitamin d especially iv is not an indication
for covid treatment which makes me wonder who's prescribing this for him anyway because that's not
the standard of care physicians don't treat covid with iv vitamin d in nad drip totally bizarre
we never give that in hospital period let alone for covid prednisone sort of makes sense because
it's basically the brother of dexamethasone it's a steroid and what that does for moderate to severe
covid is that that can improve mortality in those conditions but those only improve
mortality when they had moderate to severe covid he obviously doesn't have moderate or severe covid
because if that were the case he would have lower oxygen levels then we saved the best for
last ivermectin it's not fda approved and it's not recommended by the cdc or the who why because
there haven't been solid studies that show that it works now it seems like it's safe when taken
at doses that's used to treat head lice scabies or parasitic infections that's typically for most
people around 15 to 20 milligrams now when you hear about these stories in the news about people
getting ivermectin from livestock supply in that case they're taking 10 to 15 times the amount that
they should be taking and that's when you hear about these phone calls going to poison control
centers that was my last video that i made so the bottom line with ivermectin is it hasn't been
shown to work and when you start getting in really high doses the risk of toxicity goes up and that's
when you get severe side effects seizures coma and so forth i have no idea how much prednisone
he took i have no idea how much ivermectin he took no way for me to know that i have no idea what the
covid is going to do to him most likely nothing he got better already he said and usually things are
fine but sometimes it happens where people have mild illness of covid and it progresses to more
severe disease i've seen it happen many times i've seen it happen in people who are just like him his
age who are healthy and in their 40s and their 50s and they come in they've been having mild
disease for a week and then they finally get to the hospital and then things go bad but when you
say that i took this drug whether it's ivermectin or whatever and it worked for me that has a huge
impact when you have 16 million followers because some of your followers will hang on to every word
that you say but like i said earlier you're just an anecdotal case there are people who
made the news when remdesivir came out saying remdesivir i felt great right when i took it
but guess what the studies don't show that it works very well crazy times we're living in but
a wonderful heartfelt thank you to modern medicine for pulling me out of this so quickly and easily
and uh my love to all of you thank you a heartfelt thank you to modern medicine well joe this is what
modern medicine says it says get the fda approved vaccine it says don't take the non-fda approved
ivermectin it also says dexamethasone is indicated for moderate to severe covid illness it also says
monoclonal antibodies from mild illness you got that one right it also says no vitamin d drip
for covid it also says no nad drip for anything so if you're sincere about giving a big thank
you to modern medicine you should echo what the experts say you should echo what the cdc says
i'm actually a fan of the joe rogan podcast but i'm not a fan of covid misinformation
but by you doing this in some of the things that you said it's only contributing to the problem
of misinformation the misinformation pandemic you're only further worsening the problem before
you're on record of saying that well if you're young and healthy you don't need to get vaccinated
that's not the case people young and healthy have gotten sick not only that but they can
still spread the virus to others which is only further contributing towards the pandemic now i
did do a video on exercise and how that relates to the severity of covid illness and basically
in that study it showed that exercising helps to reduce the severity of covid if you did get covid
but that's not a substitute for getting the vaccine you can't compare the two the
vaccine gives you way more protection than just exercising well joe then you talk about natural
immunity and that not enough people are talking about natural immunity and boosting your immune
system boosting is actually misnomer because you can't boost your immune system by natural means
yes you can get a vaccine and a booster shot that can boost your immune system towards specific
illness but you can't actually boost your immune system naturally you can optimize your immune
system and of course it's great to get great sleep eight nine hours per night to eat healthy
to exercise to do all these things that's fantastic and people should do these things
but that in itself isn't good enough it's not going to be a substitute for getting the vaccine
the thing of it is joe you have a big platform you're a huge influence and with that comes a big
responsibility the other thing joe is that it's hypocritical to say natural immunity and then you
go ahead and get monoclonal antibodies ivermectin and azithromycin monoclonal antibodies is literally
antibodies that were created somewhere else and then you put them into your own body that is not
natural immunity as you call it when bill burr was on his podcast he said this let's not start
this job do you though let's not start this okay let's get started i don't want to start this
[ __ ] i'm not going to sit here with no medical degree listening to you with no medical degree
with an american flag behind you smoking a cigar acting like we know what's up better than the cdc
so a lot of people wonder if they had covid do they still need to get the vaccine and one of my
recent videos actually addressed that question so people with a history of covid still need to
get the vaccine later on and the level of immunity that you get from previous covid it's better than
nothing at all but it's not as good as the vaccine and it's not as good as previously having covid in
addition to the vaccine and so having covid plus the vaccine is probably equivalent to
having the shots the jabs in addition to the booster shot of course that's assuming if you're
not immunocompromised i talk more about that in a different video but i also want to bring
in someone my best friend who is also a doctor he's a psychiatrist and he had covid and then
he later got the vaccine and then later on he got covid again presumably the delta variant