Nineteen thousand COVID patients came through Dr. Brian Tyson's urgent care clinic, and no federal health agency has ever asked him what worked. In this episode of The Jenny Beth Show, Jenny Beth Martin talks with the Southern California physician who kept his doors open when most doctors closed theirs, and who says the lessons of the pandemic are still sitting uncollected on the border. Dr. Brian Tyson has practiced medicine for more than twenty years and runs All Valley Urgent Care, with three locations in Imperial County, California. A former emergency room physician and intensive care unit attending, he built outdoor test-and-treat centers when his county became the epicenter of Southern California's outbreak, saw three to four hundred patients a day, and developed a treatment protocol around monoclonal antibodies, budesonide, oxygen, anti-inflammatories, and repurposed drugs. He walks through the first 1,800 patients and what he says happened to the ones treated before day seven of illness. He explains why "there is no treatment" struck him as either extremely naive or something worse, how off-label prescribing actually works, and how a two-and-a-half-hour conversation with the California Medical Board ended. He describes ten months of state data collection inside his own clinic, the two findings he says never made the publication, and the email he got the day after he asked why. He draws the parallel to the AIDS epidemic and the cheap treatment he says was set aside for a new drug. More at jennybethshow.com and teapartypatriots.org.
Dr. Brian Tyson is an urgent care physician at All Valley Urgent Care in Imperial County, California, where he practices with three locations near the southern border. He has been in medicine for more than twenty years, previously serving as an emergency room physician and an intensive care unit attending. During the pandemic his county became the epicenter of Southern California's outbreak, and his clinic became one of the few in-person treatment centers still operating, seeing three to four hundred patients a day.
Jenny Beth Martin hosts. She founded Tea Party Patriots Action and spent 2020 organizing physicians and pressing state and local officials on lockdown policy, and she brings that firsthand account into the conversation.
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Timestamped breakdown:
00:00 — Cold open: 19,000 patients, and what he thought of the Fauci hearing
00:47 — All Valley Urgent Care, Imperial County, and the epicenter on the border
03:16 — He stopped counting at 19,700, and what the first 1,800 patients showed
05:21 — "There's nothing we can do": what supportive care is supposed to mean
12:56 — A cookbook society: evidence-based medicine versus acute illness
17:10 — The California Medical Board investigation, and the investigator's verdict
17:43 — Trust the doctors on the front line
22:07 — Government management, and the Ivory Towers
24:52 — Fauci's diaries and his testimony
27:26 — The Wuhan cover-up and the 2005 coronavirus research
29:43 — Hydroxychloroquine, off-label prescribing, and how approval actually works
33:34 — Monoclonal antibodies, the supply chain, and why they were pulled
35:34 — No federal agency has ever asked him what worked
35:46 — Ten months of state data collection inside his clinic
38:14 — The email: no longer a sentinel site
40:06 — Saying there was treatment on the local news, and losing his accounts
44:19 — Fear and anger, tracking the virus, and Georgia's reopening
48:06 — Essential-business absurdity, and closing the schools
52:39 — The AIDS epidemic parallel: AZT and the treatment that already worked
58:19 — If he was wrong, the outcome was the same. If he was right, people lived
59:54 — The lessons he wants Washington to learn
1:01:26 — Applying to Health and Human Services, the vaccine question, and the $250,000 loan
Links: jennybethshow.com | teapartypatriots.org