Dr. Phil: 5 Things To Know About The TV Host Under Fire For His COVID-19 Comments
“250 people a year die from poverty and the poverty line is getting such that more and more people are going to fall below that because the economy is crashing around us. And they’re doing that because people are dying from the coronavirus. I get that,” Phil “Dr. Phil” McGraw, 69, said during the Thursday (Apr. 16) episode of Laura Ingram’s show on Fox News. From there, he claimed that “45,000 people a year die from automobile accidents, 480,000 from cigarettes, 360,000 a year from swimming pools, but we don’t shut the country down for that. But yet we’re doing it for this? And the fallout is going to last for years because people’s lives are being destroyed.”