Obamacare Architect Recommends Americans to Return to Wearing ‘Really High-Quality Masks’

Ezekiel Emanuel (the architect of Obamacare), referring to China’s new COVID variant, advised Americans to return to their old clothes “really high-quality masks.”

Emanuel spoke to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell about the new COVID variant, XBB. 1.5 on Monday’s episode of her show “Andrea Mitchell Reports.”

“It’s spreading very rapidly which means it can evade and outcompete the other subvariants,” Emmanuel spoke. “It seems to avoid the antibodies but also bind more tightly to cells and that gives it the competitive advantage it needs. And unfortunately the antibodies therefore we have from infections or vaccines don’t seem to work. And the monoclonal antibody Evusheld we have, that a lot of immune-compromised patients don’t use doesn’t seem to be working that well.”

Emmanuel predicted that the U.S. will see a rise in COVID cases moving forward.

“So, is this typical, that the variants keep coming and as infections spread this virus finds new ways to conquer our best efforts?” Mitchell asked.

“Yes. We do see when the virus spreads to lots more people that you get more variants, because the more it reproduces the higher the chance of a mutation or a recombination event, and that’s actually what’s really concerning about China,” Emmanuel answered.

He said also that China would be hard hit because of its low immunity. “They will have a lot of deaths, unfortunately, because of the low immunity they have in the population, but also that with hundreds of millions of people getting infected, likely over the next few weeks, they’re gonna have a lot more variants, and we don’t have a good line of sight into those variants and the genome, and that is what’s worrisome to other countries about the China situation,” Emmanuel said.

Mitchell asked Mitchell what steps should be taken to stop China. She mentioned travel bans or negative tests.

“A travel ban and the negative test results, they’re just delaying tactics,” Emmanuel proclaimed. “They’re trying to get us information; they’re not gonna help. Individually, for your viewers, Andrea, the best thing they can do at the moment, and I know a lot of them are resistant, is masks. N-95, really high quality masks. You can’t control what’s out there in the airports or what’s on a train, or what’s gonna be in a shopping mall, but you can protect yourself with these very high quality masks, and that’s what I recommend. “

Dr. Zeke Emanuel: Covid vaccines don’t work against new variant, travel bans and testing are ”delaying tactics”; only thing that reliably works are “really high quality masks.” pic.twitter.com/54E5ilcBTH

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 2, 2023