Conservative host Dennis Prager says he tested positive for COVID — just the way he planned
Mission accomplished.
Right-wing broadcaster Dennis Prager told his YouTube followers Monday that he is overcoming a bout with COVID, which took him more than a year to contract. According to the 73-year-old Brooklyn native, that was all part of his plan.
“I wanted to achieve natural immunity, which is by far the more robust immunity that one can have against COVID or any virus,” he said. “I have wanted to have that all along.”
Prager said his strategy included months of loading his system with therapeutics that included the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin and zinc. Feeling ready, he hit the town.
“I hugged strangers in the thousands, literally in the thousands, while not being inoculated,” he said.
He boasted about posing for photos with strangers at rallies to further tempt the highly contagious virus.
“Finally, I got it from somebody,” Prager said.
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His symptoms reportedly included chills and a light fever. Prager said that at his age, he should be, and is concerned about getting sick, but rejects information that comes from medical experts at the CDC and is reported by some mainstream media outlets. He then turned his attention to others he feels have misled him, including President Biden.
“The man is evil,” Prager, a Donald Trump supporter, said.
Without great detail, he accused the president, the CDC, the FDA and NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci of all being “corrupt.”
He was especially angry with doctors whom he said call his show to discourage people from using ivermectin.
“There’s a special place in Hell for doctors who dismiss ivermectin so I don’t really care what they do on my show,” he said. “I do believe they will answer to a good God because if anybody should know better it’s doctors.”
There are both human and animal-grade versions of ivermectin, neither of which is a proven solution to coronavirus, according to the FDA. That administration warns ivermectin can be dangerous if taken in large amounts. Merck, the company that makes ivermectin said in February that it had seen, “No meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 disease.”
Earlier this month, Merck submitted an anti-viral drug called molnupiravir to the FDA for emergency use in treating COVID-19. A decision is pending.
Prager, who is not trained in medicine, continued promoting therapeutic medicine and falsely suggested, “There is no argument for young people to get vaccinated, none whatsoever.”
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Vaccines are available for children 12 and older. Experts at Johns Hopkins recommend them.
Prager then said older people who aren’t prepared to do the preventive work he did “should consider taking the vaccine,” which he described as “somewhat of a crapshoot.”
He claimed to be doing “fine” while in quarantine.
A CDC report in August found “unvaccinated individuals are more than twice as likely to be reinfected with COVID-19 than those who were fully vaccinated after initially contracting the virus.”
That data further indicated “COVID-19 vaccines offer better protection than natural immunity alone and that vaccines, even after prior infection, help prevent reinfections.”
Researchers in Israel, as Prager noted, claimed in August that their studies suggested previous COVID infection protects better against the delta variant than the Pfizer vaccine.
Watchdog group Media Matters for America noted in August that Prager told his followers, “The issue isn’t medical knowledge. The issue is wisdom and courage.”
It was his claim that people who listen to his program probably know more than their own doctors about COVID.
