MSNBC’s Patel on COVID Uptick: Time to Bring Out Masks

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MSNBC’s Patel on COVID Uptick: Time to Bring Out Masks

Pam Key 1 Aug 2023

Former Obama official, MSNBC medical contributor Dr. Kavita Patel said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “José Díaz-Balart Reports” that a rise in COVID cases meant it was time to bring out masks.

Partial transcript as follows:

    DIAZ-BALART: If you’ve noticed more of your friends, neighbors, loved ones are testing positive for COVID, you’re not alone. According to the CDC, COVID-19 hospitalizations are up 12 percent from last week and while we’re nowhere near previous levels, it’s still raising concerns.

    Joining us now with more is Dr. Kavita Patel who served as a White House policy director in the Obama Administration. She is an MSNBC medical contributor. Dr. Patel, it’s always great seeing you. So, I think we’ve, kind of, all been noticing that right, there’s somebody you know or people are, you know, think they have a cold and it ends up being COVID. What’s going on? What are you seeing?

    PATEL: Well, we’re seeing the same thing, José, in clinic. We are, as you said, hospitalizations are going up. Let me start with good news. We are not seeing anywhere near the dramatic rises that we saw in previous summers or previous years, that’s good news. That’s because a large part of the population has either been infected and vaccinated or both several times.

    So, what I think people need to know is that, I would just keep people on alert, that when you’re in those crowded spaces, think about the cost of colds and sometimes many people don’t have any symptoms, a mask can be your best friend, keep it—back in time we had them in our pockets, in our coats and our backpacks, time to bring them out again, especially as the school season starts. We don’t want to see kids missing school for things we could have prevented.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/08/01/msnbcs-patel-on-covid-uptick-time-to-bring-out-masks/

[Smokin Joe]

No.

To each his own, but no.

[libertybele]

No.

To each his own, but no.

No.  No masks. Hand sanitizer and washing hands, just as usual

[mountaineer]

I hadn't noticed anyone being diagnosed with Covid. 

[Kamaji]

Not this stupid sh*t again.

[PeteS in CA]

Hokay, I've posted this link to Covid cases and deaths stats, https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ , 50 billion times ( ). I have a simple question. Looking at the daily new cases and deaths charts, What "COVID Uptick"?!

[ScottinVA]

Once again… playing on Americans’ fears in yet another attempt to control our actions and movements.  And voila… it’ll come to a crescendo next year just in time to mandate mail-in voting.

[Wingnut]

MSNBC’s “José Díaz-Balart Reports”

Makes me miss good ole Miranda Veracruz de la Jolla Cardinal from  WBHZ (Channel 83).

[PeteS in CA]

DIAZ-BALART: If you’ve noticed more of your friends, neighbors, loved ones are testing positive for COVID, you’re not alone. ...

My daughter had a coworker test positive for Covid a couple of weeks ago. As she had been having some health stuff around the same time, she did a Covid test. It was negative.

My company emails alerts to people in buildings in which an employee had tested positive for Covid. There are two levels of alerts: those who had been around the Covid-positive person are instructed to take a company-provided test and act according to the test results; others in the building who had not been near the Covid-positive person who should be alert for possible symptoms. I haven't seen any email alerts in months.

Not listening to Wolf-Criers.

[catfish1957]

Makes me miss good ole Miranda Veracruz de la Jolla Cardinal from  WBHZ (Channel 83).

What do you mean there is no more money left to be made in UHF stations?

[mountaineer]

Some friends of ours visited Ireland in early April. Apparently, there was a sick person on their flight, because they came down with Covid.

Surprisingly, they survived.