Dr. Oz added, “We know that for many kids school is a place of security, nutrition and learning that is missing right now.” He said he would continue looking for solutions to “beat this virus.”
Phillip C. McGraw, the psychologist known as Dr. Phil, similarly gained celebrity on Ms. Winfrey’s show, and went on to start his own program and to court controversy.
Dr. McGraw appeared on the show “The Ingraham Angle” on Thursday and questioned whether social distancing measures were worth sustaining amid a worldwide economic crisis. He compared the death toll of the coronavirus to deaths that are not caused by contagious illness, such as automobile accidents, cigarettes and drownings. He said that those causes, collectively, killed hundreds of thousands of people a year.
“We don’t shut the country down for that but yet we’re doing it for this?” he said. “The fallout is going to last for years because people’s lives are being destroyed.”
On his YouTube show on Friday, Dr. McGraw responded to the criticism he had faced over his comments. “If you didn’t like my choice of words, I apologize for that,” he said, adding that he wants people to “100 percent follow the guidelines.”
Dr. Fauci and other public health officials have urged caution with easing social distancing, which they call one of the most effective ways to combat the spread of the virus. They warn that, if the measures are relaxed too soon, it could risk another wave of illness and death.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/business/media/dr-oz-apology-coronavirus.html
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