Conservative host scrambles to stop doctor from debunking anti-immigrant virus claims
Conservative TV host J.D. Hayworth hurried to cut off a guest on Thursday who was debunking the conservative argument that Central American immigrants are bringing infectious diseases into the U.S., Right Wing Watch reported.
“I actually think the threat of diseases coming into the United States from Central America is fairly remote,” Dr. Peter Horetz — who specializes in treating those types of diseases at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston — told a surprised Hayworth during an interview on Newsmax. “The problem is not so much immigration. We call them neglected tropical diseases, and that’s a bit of a misnomer. They’re diseases of poverty.
Hayworth, a former Republican congressman from Arizona, broached the topic by asking Horetz to focus on the country’s “southern borders.”
“We are hearing widespread infectious diseases coming into the United States,” Hayworth argued, without identifying his sources. “Tell us about the nature of the threat of these diseases coming into the United States.”
In fact, medical professionals like Horetz have stated that Central American countries actually have a higher rate of vaccination against diseases like tuberculosis than the U.S.
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