Days after she was banished from Twitter for a week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene continued to spread COVID-19 disinformation, denying that hospitals are seeing a surge in COVID patients and also claiming COVID vaccines aren't working.
During a Wednesday appearance on The Water Cooler on the right-wing Real America's Voice, the Georgia Republican told host Anna Perez she had talked to hospital administrators in her district and in her state.
'Yes, the waiting rooms get full. But guess what, the waiting rooms are full of all kinds of things, not just COVID - car accidents, trauma, other illnesses, cancer and so-forth,' Greene said.
During a Wednesday appearance on The Water Cooler on the right-wing Real America's Voice, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed hospital waiting rooms are filling up with 'all kinds of things, not just COVID'
She claimed that while news reports said hospitals were 'slam-packed' with COVID, 'that's just not the case.'
'Everyone needs to get back down to common sense and remember that, you know, we're human, we can't live forever, we are going to catch all kinds of diseases and illnesses and other viruses and we get hurt sometimes,' the congresswoman argued.
News reports from Georgia, including one Tuesday from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, said hospitals are in 'crisis mode' because of the surge in COVID patients.
In five of the state's 14 hospital regions there were fewer than 10 ICU beds open for incoming patients.
'Our emergency room wait times have surpassed anything I’ve ever experienced in my medical career,' said Dr. Mohsen Akhlaghi, the chief of emergency medicine in Southeast Georgia Health System.
And as of Tuesday, the statewide seven-day rolling average for hospitalizations - 3,214 - exceeded last summer's peak surge.
But during the interview Greene said she believed children shouldn't wear masks.
'No masking for children, I stand with parents. In fact I believe it's child abuse,' she said.
And she pushed that Americans should be skeptical of being vaxxed.
Greene argued, at the same time, that the FDA shouldn't approve the vaccines and people should be wary of the vaccines because they haven't been approved by the FDA.
She claimed family members who had received the vaccine ended up being more sick from COVID than family members who contracted coronavirus before being vaccinated.
'Biden would love to make it the law of the land. And I think that's completely wrong,' the Georgia Republican said.
'Again, I'm not anti-vax. I am completely for people being allowed to make choices, medical choices for themselves and their families,' she continued.
'And I don't think the FDA should approve a vaccine that doesn't seem to be that effective especially with COVID-19 raging all over the country - at least that's what the media tells us every single day,' the lawmaker added.
Recent data analyzed by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that in the states that track vaccinated versus unvaccinated COVID infections, 94-plus per cent of COVID cases were among those who were unvaccinated.
'Let's not turn into an authoritarian regime that forces shots in arms to people that don't want it,' Greene said, concluding the interview.
Earlier this week she had been suspended by Twitter for seven days for tweets she sent out Monday night claiming the COVID-19 vaccines were 'failing' because they 'do not reduce the spread of the virus'.
A Twitter spokesperson told DailyMail.com that Greene's account 'will be in read-only mode for a week due to repeated violations of the Twitter Rules.'
The Georgia Republican tweeted Monday night that the 'The FDA should not approve the covid vaccines. There are too many reports of infection & spread of #COVID19 among vaccinated people.'
'These vaccines are failing & do not reduce the spread of the virus & neither do masks,' she wrote.
'Vaccine mandates & passports violate individual freedoms,' the congresswoman added.
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