Marjorie Taylor Greene claims hospital waiting rooms are filling up with 'all kinds of things, not just COVID' because 'we're humans, we can't live forever'
Days after she was banished from Twitter for a week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene continued to spread COVID-19 disinformation, denying that hospitals are seeing a surge in COVID patients and also claiming COVID vaccines aren't working.
During a Wednesday appearance on The Water Cooler on the right-wing Real America's Voice, the Georgia Republican told host Anna Perez she had talked to hospital administrators in her district and in her state.
'Yes, the waiting rooms get full. But guess what, the waiting rooms are full of all kinds of things, not just COVID - car accidents, trauma, other illnesses, cancer and so-forth,' Greene said.
During a Wednesday appearance on The Water Cooler on the right-wing Real America's Voice, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed hospital waiting rooms are filling up with 'all kinds of things, not just COVID'
She claimed that while news reports said hospitals were 'slam-packed' with COVID, 'that's just not the case.'
'Everyone needs to get back down to common sense and remember that, you know, we're human, we can't live forever, we are going to catch all kinds of diseases and illnesses and other viruses and we get hurt sometimes,' the congresswoman argued.
News reports from Georgia, including one Tuesday from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, said hospitals are in 'crisis mode' because of the surge in COVID patients.
In five of the state's 14 hospital regions there were fewer than 10 ICU beds open for incoming patients.
'Our emergency room wait times have surpassed anything I’ve ever experienced in my medical career,' said Dr. Mohsen Akhlaghi, the chief of emergency medicine in Southeast Georgia Health System.
And as of Tuesday, the statewide seven-day rolling average for hospitalizations - 3,214 - exceeded last summer's peak surge.
But during the interview Greene said she believed children shouldn't wear masks.
'No masking for children, I stand with parents. In fact I believe it's child abuse,' she said.
And she pushed that Americans should be skeptical of being vaxxed.
Doctor Carlos del Rio, an infectious disease expert at Emory University, participates in a press conference on the surge of COVID-19 cases in Atlanta earlier this month
Data from the Georgia Department of Health shows COVID cases spiking up in the state since late June
Greene argued, at the same time, that the FDA shouldn't approve the vaccines and people should be wary of the vaccines because they haven't been approved by the FDA.
She claimed family members who had received the vaccine ended up being more sick from COVID than family members who contracted coronavirus before being vaccinated.
'Biden would love to make it the law of the land. And I think that's completely wrong,' the Georgia Republican said.
'Again, I'm not anti-vax. I am completely for people being allowed to make choices, medical choices for themselves and their families,' she continued.
'And I don't think the FDA should approve a vaccine that doesn't seem to be that effective especially with COVID-19 raging all over the country - at least that's what the media tells us every single day,' the lawmaker added.
Recent data analyzed by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that in the states that track vaccinated versus unvaccinated COVID infections, 94-plus per cent of COVID cases were among those who were unvaccinated.
'Let's not turn into an authoritarian regime that forces shots in arms to people that don't want it,' Greene said, concluding the interview.
Earlier this week she had been suspended by Twitter for seven days for tweets she sent out Monday night claiming the COVID-19 vaccines were 'failing' because they 'do not reduce the spread of the virus'.
A Twitter spokesperson told DailyMail.com that Greene's account 'will be in read-only mode for a week due to repeated violations of the Twitter Rules.'
The Georgia Republican tweeted Monday night that the 'The FDA should not approve the covid vaccines. There are too many reports of infection & spread of #COVID19 among vaccinated people.'
'These vaccines are failing & do not reduce the spread of the virus & neither do masks,' she wrote.
'Vaccine mandates & passports violate individual freedoms,' the congresswoman added.
Fully vaccinated people are still contracting COVID-19, but data shows they're being protected against severe disease, hospitalization and death.
Greene tweeted Monday night that the FDA should not approve the COVID vaccines because there were 'too many reports' of breakthrough cases. Twitter marked the tweet misleading and blocked users from interacting with it
As of July 26, the latest date for which data is available, there were at least 6,587 so-called 'breakthrough' cases reported among 163 million fully vaccinated individuals.
Of those cases, 6,239 resulted in hospitalization and 1,263 peopled died.
Twitter flagged the tweet saying it contained misleading information. It also blocked users from retweeting or liking the message.
'The Tweet you referenced was labeled in line with our COVID-19 misleading information policy. The account will be in read-only mode for a week due to repeated violations of the Twitter Rules,' a Twitter spokesperson told DailyMail.com.
Twitter has a five-strike rule for users who spread COVID-19 misinformation.
CNN first reported her suspension.
Greene sent a statement to The Washington Examiner that continued to spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.
She also complained about conservatives being targeted by double standards.
'Why does Dr. Fauci only harshly criticize bikers at Sturgis riding in open air with no masks but is silent on Obama's "sophisticated" birthday party super-spreader event for Hollywood and Democrat elites? Why is it right and moral to allow tens of thousands of COVID positive "migrants" into our country and ship them all over to every state in the taxpayer’s dime yet force our children to mask up for school?' she mused.
'But if MTG dare says the truth, Twitter suspends me because the truth is so offensive to the fragile hypocrites all over Twitter!' she said, referring to herself in the third-person.
'They will allow porn on Twitter. They will allow posts about parents transitioning their children and changing their gender on Twitter. But Twitter won’t allow any real discussion of the truth from an elected congresswoman because Twitter only cares about the Democrats communist agenda for America,' she continued.
'Good thing my voters could care less about Twitter,' the Georgia Republican added.
CNN estimated that Greene only had one strike to go before she was permanently banned from the platform.
In July, Greene was banned from Twitter for 12 hours after two of her tweets on COVID-19 were labeled misleading.
Twitter has a five-strike policy for users who spread COVID-19 misinformation. With Greene's seven day lock-out, it appears she only has one more strike to go before she's suspended from the site
On July 18 she posted: 'This is why no entity should force NON-FDA approved vaccines or masks. Instead help people protect their health by defeating obesity, which will protect them from covid complications & death, and many other health problems. We should invest in health, not human experimentation.'
And on July 19, she wrote: 'The controversial #COVID19 vaccines should not be forced on our military for a virus that is not dangerous for non-obese people and those under 65. With 6,000 vax related deaths and many concerning side effects reported, the vax should be a choice not a mandate for everyone.'
Twitter labeled the tweet misleading, adding 'Learn why health officials recommend a vaccine for most people.'
Greene got suspended from Twitter for 12 hours in July after Twitter said she violated their COVID misinformation policy with two tweets
Her second said that COVID is 'not dangerous for non-obese people and those under 65'
Prior to the July ban, Greene had to walk back comments she made in May comparing COVID-19 vaccinations and mask mandates to the Holocaust.
'I have made a mistake and it's really bothered me for a couple weeks now,' Greene said at a June news conference.
She said there was 'nothing comparable' to the Holocaust.
'I know the words I stated were hurtful and for that I am very sorry,' Greene said.
In January, Greene also got locked out of her Twitter account days after the January 6 Capitol riot as she falsely claimed that officials in Georgia were 'begged by Republicans to fix our elections' costing former President Donald Trump and two Georgia Republican senators their races.
Requests for comment to Greene's office by DailyMail.com on Tuesday morning were not immediately returned.
A vast majority of breakthrough infections recorded by the CDC are among people 65 years of age or older, according to July data from the CDC
