Gupta admitted his CNN colleagues should not have referred to Rogan’s COVID treatment as ‘horse dewormer’
CNN showered its chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta with praise for daring to sit down with podcast giant Joe Rogan, but the liberal network largely ignored some of the most viral moments from the three-hour interview.
Shortly after Wednesday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” was released, Gupta appeared with CNN anchor Erin Burnett.
“Do you feel like you broke through or that he will ever embrace the vaccine?” Burnett asked.
“I don’t think so… I hate to say that, but he was very steadfast in this,” Gupta responded.
Gupta trashed Rogan, accusing him of “convincing” himself of sticking to a “particular narrative” despite the data he shared with the podcast host.
He then attempted to rebuke Rogan’s concerns about young boys getting myocarditis following the vaccine by pointing to an Israeli study showing only 2.7 people out of 100,000 were diagnosed with heart inflammation after getting the Pfizer vaccine but that 11 people out of 100,000 received the same diagnosis following getting sick with COVID, concluding that myocarditis is a bigger risk for the unvaccinated than the vaccinated.
“When you’re trying to figure out risk, truly sitting down as a parent in this case and comparing apples to apples and saying which is the better option for my child I think that’s important,” Gupta added.
However, as Fourth Watch media critic Steve Krakauer pointed out, Rogan specifically spoke about young boys, but the study Gupta cited attempting to dismiss Rogan’s concerns relied on overall cases, not children. Gupta went on to cite the same data again the next day.
CNN appeared very selective on which exchanges it chose to highlight since another one which received over 1 million views on Twitter showed Rogan stumping Gupta over the risk for a vaccinated adult of getting terribly sick with COVID versus an unvaccinated young child amid the debate of vaccine mandates for children.
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