CNN anchor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/youre-letting-him-get-away-with-murder-jake-tapper-torches-biden-for-giving-saudi-prince-a-pass/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jake Tapper</a> choked up when he revealed the misdiagnosis that could have killed his teenaged daughter Alice, saying that the access he had to resources as a journalist may have been what ultimately helped her get the right care.
Alice Tapper, 15, was diagnosed with a viral infection when she actually had appendicitis. And after the initial misdiagnosis, her appendix eventually ruptured — turning what could have been a relatively routine procedure into a 12-week ordeal.
&#8220;I was so tired, I would sleep through the whole day. My stomach hurt so bad, I’ve never been in that amount of extreme pain before,&#8221; Alice said.
Jennifer Tapper, the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/you-dont-use-these-tools-jake-tapper-corners-biden-econ-adviser-for-blowing-smoke-about-inflation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN anchor&#8217;s</a> wife and Alice&#8217;s mother, said that she hadn&#8217;t wanted to think about the possibility but that she was truly scared that she could lose her daughter.
&#8220;That was the scariest thing I’ve ever seen. The life was just leaving her. I just thought why is her skin so green and why are her hands and feet freezing?&#8221; she asked.
Alice explained that she had begun vomiting on a Saturday morning, and when she just didn&#8217;t get any better, her parents eventually took her to the hospital. The doctors initially determined that she probably had food poisoning or gastroenteritis.
The Tappers asked whether a sonogram might be warranted, and were told that it wasn&#8217;t necessary — but Tapper used his resources to get contact information for the hospital administrator, after which a sonogram was finally ordered. The test revealed that Alice had appendicitis, but that her appendix had already burst and the infected fluids had spilled into her abdominal cavity — which made immediate surgery impossible.
&#8220;I had to get two laparoscopic drains at first. And then after they discharged me and sent me home, I went back to the hospital because I still wasn’t feeling better and they had to put another laparoscopic drain. I ended up getting my appendix out 12 weeks later, in March,&#8221; Alice added.
Tapper concluded the segment by explaining that he hadn&#8217;t come forward with his daughter&#8217;s story to attack the doctors or the hospital — but rather because he was aware that it was the resources he had access to that may have ultimately helped doctors to save Alice&#8217;s life.
&#8220;The average family would not have been able to do that and the average family may have very well lost that child,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;The medical community needs to rethink how they rule out appendicitis &#8230; Please do not just say, no, this is viral, do not back into diagnoses — I’m sorry, I’m a little emotional watching that piece.&#8221;
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My colleague and friend <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a> underwent a horrifying ordeal with his daughter Alice. A medical misdiagnosis. He asked me to tell their story as a cautionary tale — one that happens 7 million times a year <a href="https://t.co/plt9pnGCf1">pic.twitter.com/plt9pnGCf1</a>
&mdash; Dr. Sanjay Gupta (@drsanjaygupta) <a href="https://twitter.com/drsanjaygupta/status/1603779777491369989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Jake Tapper Reveals The Misdiagnosis That Could Have Killed His Daughter

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If comedian and actor Bob Saget&#8217;s sudden death wasn&#8217;t tragic enough, now some experts are suggesting that his autopsy report has raised more questions than it answered.
Multiple news reports <a href="https://twitter.com/NewsNation/status/1492302461150937090">detailed</a> a &#8220;blunt head trauma&#8221; that had caused multiple skull fractures and hemorrhaging near his brain. The New York Times&#8217; Science section <a href="https://twitter.com/NYTScience/status/1492319547885600773">tweeted</a>, &#8220;Far from a head bump that might have been shrugged off, the autopsy described an unmistakably serious set of injuries that would at the very least have probably left someone confused, brain experts said.&#8221;
CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta — a neurosurgeon by trade — laid out the details of the report during a segment of &#8220;New Day,&#8221; saying, &#8220;I think what it reveals more than anything else is that this was not a sort of simple bump on the head.&#8221;
He went on to say that early reports — even after the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/breaking-bob-sagets-family-announces-cause-of-death/">cause of death</a> was released earlier in the week — suggested the comedian had possibly bumped his head getting into bed and not realized that anything was wrong.
&#8220;When you read this autopsy report, that may still be the case, but it was a very significant blow to the head,&#8221; Gupta continued, pointing out that the skull fractures were extensive enough to stretch from the back of Saget&#8217;s head around to his right temporal bone – and that there were additional fractures on the front of his skull as well.
&#8220;In order to do that — when I first saw this, if I knew nothing else about what had happened, you would think that maybe this was someone who had fallen down the stairs and had several impacts to the head or been unrestrained in a car accident,&#8221; Gupta said. &#8220;I mean, it was that degree of force.&#8221;
&#8220;Whatever happened here, I mean we may never know the exact — like how he fell or what happened, but it was a significant blow that caused that, and likely the bleeding on top of the brain &#8230; sadly, led to him becoming unconscious and then dying,&#8221; he concluded.
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CNN&#39;s Dr. Sanjay Gupta examines actor and comedian Bob Saget&#39;s autopsy report and says the report reveals what seems to be signs of a significant blow to the head <a href="https://t.co/ZExvcfXyTk">https://t.co/ZExvcfXyTk</a> <a href="https://t.co/I0YLeARRW5">pic.twitter.com/I0YLeARRW5</a>
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Emergency physician Dr. Megan Ranney appeared to agree with Gupta&#8217;s assessment, tweeting, &#8220;This is not a &#8216;slip &amp; fall&#8217;. This is not a minor concussion. This is MAJOR head trauma,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;My condolences to Saget&#8217;s friends &amp; family. I hope that they get answers as to what really happened.&#8221;
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Hi. ICYMI: This is not a &quot;slip &amp; fall&quot;. This is not a minor concussion. This is MAJOR head trauma. 
My condolences to Saget&#39;s friends &amp; family. I hope that they get answers as to what really happened. <a href="https://t.co/DtrwEAN1xZ">pic.twitter.com/DtrwEAN1xZ</a>
&mdash; Megan Ranney MD MPH 🌻 (@meganranney) <a href="https://twitter.com/meganranney/status/1492215671580676098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;PS: this doesn&#8217;t mean it was INTENTIONAL trauma, either,&#8221; she <a href="https://twitter.com/meganranney/status/1492216719947046914">added</a>. &#8220;But this is more than just &#8216;I whacked my head on the kitchen cabinet.'&#8221;
&#8220;No wrongdoing found. Something doesn&#8217;t make sense given his severe head injuries,&#8221; former AUSA-SDNY Richard Signorelli <a href="https://twitter.com/richsignorelli/status/1492301151865389064">said</a>.
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York questioned whether the initial investigation had been thorough enough, given the questions raised by the final autopsy report.
&#8220;This is really odd. Makes you wonder about the thoroughness of the original investigation of the scene,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1492304804009418753">tweeted</a>.
Saget passed away in Florida in early January, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-legendary-comedian-bob-saget-dies-at-65">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Legendary comedian Bob Saget was pronounced dead on Sunday in Florida at 65-years-old.
“Earlier today, deputies were called to the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes for a call about an unresponsive man in a hotel room,” the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. “The man was identified as Robert Saget &amp; pronounced deceased on scene. Detectives found no signs of foul play or drug use in this case.”</blockquote>
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‘Something Doesn’t Make Sense’: Experts Question Bob Saget’s Autopsy Report

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CNN&#8217;s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, appearing on &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; this week, seemed frazzled when host Joe Rogan tried to pin down the doctor on the low COVID-19 risk to children, even comparing their risk to that of vaccinated adults.
Rogan&#8217;s commentary, which Gupta seemed to agree with, was meant to illustrate why parents might be hesitant to give children a vaccine against COVID-19. At times, however, Gupta stammered through some of the conversation, seemingly missing the point.
&#8220;With a breakthrough infection, untreated, you&#8217;re probably more vulnerable than the average child, who is not vaccinated, who gets COVID,&#8221; Rogan told Gupta. &#8220;Like, people have died who are double vaccinated. In fact, there was a guy who just won an Emmy. The odds of that happening to a healthy child are very, very low.”
&#8220;Very low,&#8221; the doctor agreed.
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&#8220;Theoretically, you would be more vulnerable than a young child would be,&#8221; the podcast host said, continuing to illustrate his larger point. &#8220;You vaccinated would be more vulnerable of a breakthrough infection than a young child would be, statistically speaking, right?&#8221;
&#8220;Uh, they&#8217;re both rare,&#8221; Gupta said.
&#8220;But you&#8217;re not worried about catching it,&#8221; Rogan reinforced. &#8220;You&#8217;re not worried about catching it because you&#8217;ve been vaccinated and you think it imparts a certain amount of protection.&#8221;
&#8220;What I&#8217;m saying to you is, I think that &#8216;not worry&#8217; is the same feeling that a lot of people have about their children,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They&#8217;re not worried about their healthy children catching it for the same reason you&#8217;re not worried about catching it being vaccinated.&#8221;
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&#8220;I think &#8212; I mean, they&#8217;re both &#8211;,&#8221; Gupta stammered.
&#8220;That seems reasonable, right?&#8221; Rogan pressed.
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Gupta responded, &#8220;Well I think &#8212; I don&#8217;t &#8212; I, I, I know the story about this 53-year-old guy…”
After Rogan continued the argument, Gupta curiously asked, &#8220;Well, are you suggesting I get boosted?&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not saying that,&#8221; Rogan reiterated. &#8220;What I&#8217;m saying is, your attitude about not being concerned because you have antibodies, and you think you would get through it even if you had a breakthrough infection, that is the exact same attitude that a lot of young people have where they don&#8217;t want to get a shot, because they&#8217;re worried about the consequences, even though they&#8217;re incredibly small.&#8221;
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<blockquote>ROGAN: With a breakthrough infection, untreated, you&#8217;re probably more vulnerable than the average child who is not vaccinated who gets COVID. Like, people have died who are double vaccinated. In fact, there was a guy who just won an Emmy…
GUPTA: Yeah, I saw that.
ROGAN: The odds of that happening to a healthy child are very, very low.
GUPTA: Very low.
ROGAN: But that guy is probably your age. How old are you?
GUPTA: I&#8217;m 51.
ROGAN: Yeah, he&#8217;s about your age. Theoretically, you would be more vulnerable than a young child would be. You, vaccinated, would be more vulnerable of a breakthrough infection than a young child would be, statistically speaking, right?
GUPTA: Uh, they&#8217;re both rare.
ROGAN: But &#8230; you&#8217;re not worried about catching it. You&#8217;re not worried about catching it because you&#8217;ve been vaccinated and you think it imparts a certain amount of protection. What I&#8217;m saying to you is, I think that &#8216;not worry&#8217; is the same feeling that a lot of people have about their children. They&#8217;re not worried about their healthy children catching it for the same reason you&#8217;re not worried about catching it being vaccinated. That, if treated correctly, they think that the child probably has a better chance even than you do, because you&#8217;re 51 years old.
GUPTA: I think &#8212; I mean, they&#8217;re both &#8212;
ROGAN: That seems reasonable, right?
GUPTA: Well I think &#8212; I don&#8217;t &#8212; I, I, I know the story about this 53-year-old guy &#8212;
ROGAN: But you see what I&#8217;m saying with your attitude? That you&#8217;re not worried about catching it because you&#8217;ve been vaccinated, and you&#8217;re a healthy guy. That is the exact same feeling that people have about vaccinating their children, if they have healthy children and they know that, statistically speaking, there&#8217;s so few children that have died from COVID.
GUPTA: Well, yeah, there are. It’s, like, I think 500 or so [kids who have died from COVID].
ROGAN: Out of millions and millions and millions of kids &#8212;
GUPTA: That probably have been exposed. But, you know, again, part of it is, is not defining this in terms of life and death.
ROGAN: But do you understand my point?
GUPTA: Well, are you suggesting I get boosted?
ROGAN: I&#8217;m not saying that. What I&#8217;m saying is, your attitude about not being concerned because you have antibodies, and you think you would get through it even if you had a breakthrough infection, that is the exact same attitude that a lot of young people have where they don&#8217;t want to get a shot, because they&#8217;re worried about the consequences, even though they&#8217;re incredibly small.</blockquote>

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Joe Rogan Puts CNN Doc Sanjay Gupta On The Spot Over COVID Risk To Kids, Parents Rejecting Vaccine 

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Speaking in an interview, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta differed with some of his CNN colleagues who mocked former CDC Director Robert Redfield’s claim that the origin of COVID-19 was the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
In an <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-lab-theory-robert-redfield-no-evidence/">interview</a> with Gupta in January that aired in full in late in March, Redfield stated, &#8220;I am of the point of view that I still think the most likely etiology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory, you know, escaped. Now, other people don&#8217;t believe that, that&#8217;s fine. Science will eventually figure it out. It&#8217;s not unusual for respiratory pathogens that are being worked on in the laboratory to infect the laboratory worker.&#8221;
&#8220;I do not believe this somehow came from a bat to a human,” he added. “And at that moment in time, the virus came to the human, became one of the most infectious viruses that we know in humanity for human to human transmission. Normally, when a pathogen goes from a zoonotic to human, it takes a while for it to figure out how to become more and more efficient.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9463153/CNNs-Sanjay-Gupta-breaks-network-BACKS-Wuhan-lab-theory.html">The Daily Mail</a> noted, “CNN commentators sneered at Redfield&#8217;s opinion, with the network in one tweet insisting there was &#8216;a lack of clear evidence&#8217; for the lab escape theory.” Meanwhile, Dr. Anthony Fauci &#8220;rushed to throw cold water on Redfield&#8217;s theory, insisting that the virus would have spread more quickly if it had already been exposed to human cells in a lab.”
But Gupta <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/the-interview-dr-sanjay-gupta-talks-vaccines-and-why-he-gives-weight-to-informed-theory-that-covid-leaked-from-wuhan-lab/">told Mediaite</a> in an interview last week, “There&#8217;s reason to suspect that this is the origin of the virus.”
Mediaite prompted Gupta by asking about interviews he had conducted, saying, “The biggest news, I thought, that came out of those interviews was former CDC Director Robert Redfield. His claim that he thought it was most likely that COVID had escaped from a lab in China as opposed to having lept from bat to animal to human at a wet market. And that has been treated by many in the media as a conspiracy theory. What do you think of his opinion? He is an experienced virologist.”
“He’s an experienced virologist. He was also head of the CDC at the time this was happening, which means that in addition to everything that we know, he had access to raw data and raw intelligence that was coming out of China,” Gupta answered. “My point is that it’s a much more informed sort of thing for him to be saying than for anybody who may have expertise in virology, because he has a lot more knowledge and information that he has that maybe he can’t share, but is informing his opinion.”
&#8220;It’s still an opinion, but the thing that sort of struck me … these interviews were 20-plus hours of interviews. … Ultimately you’ve got to distill it down,” Gupta continued. “You have to get rid of 18 hours of it. It’s like picking favorite children. But one of the reasons that it was so long is because that part of the discussion around China, I must have asked the question a dozen different ways, and I gave a lot of escape hatches to him to really clarify, ‘Well, it’s anybody’s guess, whatever.’ And he hedged a little bit, he didn’t come out and say, “100%, this came from (Wuhan),” but he really was quite adamant that this is the origin of the virus.”
“And he doesn’t think it was man-made, as you know, he just thinks that the virus had been isolated and was being studied in this lab, been exposed to human cells, and then had an accident, the lab leaked,” Gupta noted. “I was not as shocked, as I think you’re alluding to by what he said as the fact that he said it, because it’s been out there for some time. I’ve been looking into this angle of the story for a while, looking at what happened at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, even pre-pandemic, some of the regulatory lapses there and all that; there&#8217;s reason to suspect that this is the origin of the virus. It’s the only — it&#8217;s a big virology lab right in Wuhan that happened to be studying bat coronaviruses.”
“Just from an Occam&#8217;s razor standpoint, finding the simplest explanation, it would make sense,” Gupta explained. “Also keep in mind that fourteen months now, fifteen months into this, we still don&#8217;t know for certain what the origin is. So I don’t think anybody who says, ‘Well, this obviously came from a wet market,’ you say, ‘Well, where’s the evidence behind that? There was lots of people who’ve never been to that wet market who became infected.’”
China has repeatedly denied that the virus came from the lab, insisting instead that the Wuhan wet market is where it first began to spread.

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‘Simplest Explanation’: CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Differs With Colleagues, Says Virus Origin Could Be Wuhan Lab

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Jake Tapper Reveals The Misdiagnosis That Could Have Killed His Daughter

‘Something Doesn’t Make Sense’: Experts Question Bob Saget’s Autopsy Report

Joe Rogan Puts CNN Doc Sanjay Gupta On The Spot Over COVID Risk To Kids, Parents Rejecting Vaccine

‘Simplest Explanation’: CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Differs With Colleagues, Says Virus Origin Could Be Wuhan Lab