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YouTube must answer for pulling down a video from two California doctors about coronavirus stay-at-home orders, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee urged Wednesday.
Appearing on “Fox & Friends” with hosts Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, and Ainsley Earhardt, Huckabee said a statement defending their decision was no more than “word salad.”
“These guys are medical doctors. They are scientists. For heaven’s sake, they didn’t say anything that was really disputable. They were giving facts [and] figures,” he said.
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“They were invoking some opinion in terms of giving [an] analysis of the facts they presented,” Huckabee continued. “I thought the most salient point they made in the course of the video — which I did see before it got pulled — was that historically when you have a pandemic, you quarantine the sick people — not the healthy people. And that was sort of like, you know, the light bulb went off.
“I think YouTube has to answer for the selective content and the way that they have censored anything that just doesn’t fit their own agenda. Something is wrong with that — with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), studies suggest that the COVID-19 virus is spread by people not exhibiting symptoms. Additionally, close contact is not the only issue when respiratory droplets from an infected person hang in the air or on surfaces. These droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaled into the lungs.
The viral video in contention shows Bakersfield, Calif. Accelerated Urgent Care doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi at a news briefing last week. Their message was what many Americas have hoped to hear: that the coronavirus is not worse than influenza, its death rates are low, and America could reopen.
The pair had set up Bakersfield’s onl