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Talk radio host hospitalized with COVID regrets vaccine hesitancy, brother says
pbs.org ^ | July 23, 2021 | Associated Press

Posted on 07/24/2021 2:23:43 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

A conservative talk radio host from Tennessee who had been a vaccine skeptic until he was hospitalized from COVID-19 now says his listeners should get vaccinated.

Phil Valentine’s brother, Mark Valentine, spoke at length on WWTN-FM in Nashville on Thursday about his brother’s condition, saying he is in a critical care unit on supplemental oxygen, but not on a ventilator. Phil Valentine has had an afternoon talk radio show on the station for years.

“First of all, he’s regretful that he wasn’t a more vocal advocate of the vaccination,” Mark Valentine said of his brother. “For those listening, I know if he were able to tell you this, he would tell you, ‘Go get vaccinated. Quit worrying about the politics. Quit worrying about all the conspiracy theories.'”

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: covid19; fakenews; faucivirus; fearporn; ivermectin; justtheflu; philvalentine; sniffles; stopcrying; trumpvaccine; vaccinenazis
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To: zzeeman

yeah i know...

just wanted to bring it to everyone’s attention...

including theirs...


81 posted on 07/24/2021 8:09:05 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

One thing is certain, the verdict is still out on this engineered inoculation. Old man time sits on the jury and he will ultimately announce the verdict. I wonder what Israeli officials are thinking right now that 80% or more of their population has taken the jab? More boosters are coming, more variants are certain, more ‘breakthroughs’ are inevitable. Are you up for another jab?


82 posted on 07/24/2021 8:17:22 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: heavy metal; SkyDancer

I want to know if doctors are required to pass a spelling test.


83 posted on 07/24/2021 8:17:26 AM PDT by Kickaha (See the glory...of the royal scam )
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To: FtrPilot

Both are steroids but decadron is stronger, fast acting


84 posted on 07/24/2021 8:17:30 AM PDT by rainee (Trump won! )
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To: Kickaha

cut them some slack...

they’re extremely busy taking care of a hospital full of covid patients with one hand and playing around on the internet with the other...


85 posted on 07/24/2021 8:24:49 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: iontheball

“I wonder what Israeli officials are thinking right now that 80% or more of their population has taken the jab?”

I was reading an Israeli webpage that said the first vaccinated tended to be old folks that often had co-morbidities and weak immune systems.

Many old folks may think they are “fully vaccinated” but they aren’t fully protected. The medical community needs to develop a counseling system and antibody testing protocol for the older folks.


86 posted on 07/24/2021 8:29:59 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: heavy metal

This is a Saturday morning.

Doctors quite often take time off during the weekends.

ER doctors tend to be very good doctors and steer their patients into proper treatment regimes.


87 posted on 07/24/2021 8:34:22 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Berlin_Freeper

This has links to various guidelines depending on patient status:

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/about-the-guidelines/whats-new/

I don’t feel energetic enough to go through it right now.


88 posted on 07/24/2021 8:41:15 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Berlin_Freeper
My doctor advised me that since the "disease" the vaccines were targeted for, the covid, had a 99.8% survivability rate and an extremely high recovery rate even if I contracted it, why would I risk fate and get a vaccine for something that wasn't that risky to begin with?

I agreed. No vaccine for me.

89 posted on 07/24/2021 8:49:33 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Brian Griffin

well then everyday must be saturday for the self proclaimed “medical professionals” that post on these threads 7 days a week...


90 posted on 07/24/2021 8:50:53 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

pbs? Ok.

I wonder how hard they had to look to find this guy?

Still waiting for someone to tell me what good this vaccine does other than “reduce the symptoms”. I’ve been waiting now for a response to this question for nearly two weeks now.


91 posted on 07/24/2021 8:51:31 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: Jonty30
Never the whole story in these "shame" articles.

Did the person have underlying conditions? Did they take vitamin D and C? What was their lifestyle like?

92 posted on 07/24/2021 8:53:18 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: Pigsley
I have a very conservative pen pal in Washington state who listens to NPR very early in the morning as she's waking up every day. I ask her why she listens to that liberal trash.

She says it's because it tells her what the democRAT talking points are for the day and what the rest of the propaganda media will be reporting on.

She says it's like the canary in the mine shaft.

93 posted on 07/24/2021 8:57:55 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: HotHunt

Covid19 is not only about the risk to you but also to others that you could spread it to like your family.
If your doctor didn’t at least inform you of that for your thoughtful consideration then I would get a new doctor.


94 posted on 07/24/2021 9:07:16 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: UnwashedPeasant

All I’ve seen is ivermectin for animals like dewormner.


95 posted on 07/24/2021 9:11:42 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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To: McGruff

As is The Babylon Bee.


96 posted on 07/24/2021 9:18:05 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I was his choice, which is what all this is about, Choice.

There is no guarantee that he wouldn’t still be hospitalized even if he had gotten the Vaccine.

The only way that would work is if the Vaccine was proven to be 100% effective, which it isn’t.

Disclaimer: I took the Vaccine after consulting with my Oncologist since I have Leukemia. I also know someone who was Vaccinated and still got the Kung Flu.

There are no absolutes in Life, but the Left insists anything that happens to them is someone else’s fault.

That is why we have so many Civil Litigation Lawyers in this Country and 99% of them are DEMONCRATS.


97 posted on 07/24/2021 9:25:55 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Biden - Make American Grovel Again...)
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To: Kickass Conservative

His new choice is to warn people to get vaccinated.


98 posted on 07/24/2021 9:27:41 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: rainee

Decadron is able to pass the blood brain barrier. Others can’t.


99 posted on 07/24/2021 9:30:18 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: heavy metal

You’re right but I would be very leery of any physician, whether they were a Birthing Person MD or a Dr that has no defined shape or volume, that was as careless with the language as what we see around here.


100 posted on 07/24/2021 9:41:08 AM PDT by Kickaha (See the glory...of the royal scam )
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