{"id":1988651,"date":"2023-08-02T12:19:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T16:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-msnbc-doctor-says-its-time-to-start-wearing-covid-face-masks-again\/"},"modified":"2023-08-02T12:19:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T16:19:55","slug":"watch-msnbc-doctor-says-its-time-to-start-wearing-covid-face-masks-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-msnbc-doctor-says-its-time-to-start-wearing-covid-face-masks-again\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Doctor Urges Resuming COVID Face Mask Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-msnbc-doctor-says-its-time-to-start-wearing-covid-face-masks-again%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1988651&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>A Doctor&#8217;s Urgent\u2062 Message: Time to Mask Up Again<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;A\u200c mask can be your best friend. \u2062Keep it. Back in time, we had them in our pockets, in our coats, and our backpacks. Time\u200b to bring them out again,&#8221; emphasized contributor and former Obama administration official Kavita Patel on\u200b Tuesday. &#8220;Especially as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-msnbc-doctor-says-its-time-to-start-wearing-covid-face-masks-again\/\" title=\"MSNBC Doctor Urges Resuming COVID Face Mask Use\">school season starts<\/a>, we don&#8217;t \u200cwant to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-shreds-biden-democrats-put-interests-of-education-unions-ahead-of-wellbeing-of-our-children\/\" title=\"DeSantis Shreds Biden: Democrats Put \u2018Interests Of Education Unions\u2019 Ahead Of \u2018Wellbeing Of Our Children\u2019\">kids missing school<\/a> \u2064for \u200bthings that we could\u2062 have prevented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u200bsegment on MSNBC highlighted the concerning rise in COVID-19 cases across \u2064the country. During the week of July 15, \u200bover 7,100 individuals with COVID were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/msnbc-medical-contributor-tells-americans-start-wearing-masks-uptick-covid-hospitalizations\">hospitalized<\/a>, marking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thats-not-the-definition-white-house-continues-to-gaslight-on-recession\/\" title=\"\u2018That\u2019s Not The Definition\u2019: White House Continues To Gaslight On Recession\">highest percentage increase<\/a> since December.<\/p>\n<p>While\u2063 acknowledging\u2063 that this spike \u200cis not as\u200b severe as in previous \u200cyears, Patel stated, \u2063&#8221;We are\u200b not seeing anywhere\u200c near the dramatic rises that we saw in previous summers or previous years, that\u2019s good news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Patel emphasized the\u2062 importance of\u200b remaining vigilant, particularly\u200c in &#8220;crowded spaces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Changing Perceptions<\/h3>\n<p>Interestingly, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/devin-nunes-to-newsmax-trump-wants-to-win-back-the-house-senate-before-wh\/\" title=\"Devin Nunes to Newsmax: Trump Wants to Win Back the House, Senate, Before WH\">recent poll revealed<\/a> a shift in beliefs about \u200bthe COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time, a majority of Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/poll-majority-of-democrats-finally-say-covid-pandemic-is-over\/\">stated<\/a> that they\u200c believe the pandemic is over.<\/p>\n<p>According to June data from <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/507800\/say-pandemic-normalcy-remains-elusive.aspx?utm_source=google&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=syndication\">Gallup<\/a>, 51 percent of Democrats now think the pandemic has\u200d ended, marking a 23-point increase since February. This is the first time since June 2021, when Gallup began\u2064 asking, \u200dthat a majority of \u200cDemocrats have expressed this view. In comparison, 84 percent of Republicans and 65 percent of independents believe the pandemic\u200c is over.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, \u2063the survey revealed\u200d that only 2 percent of U.S. adults are &#8220;very worried&#8221; about contracting\u2063 the virus. Interestingly, 29 percent of Democrats are not worried at all about \u2064getting the\u2063 virus,\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/507800\/say-pandemic-normalcy-remains-elusive.aspx?utm_source=google&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=syndication\">compared<\/a> \u2063 to 71 percent of Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>It \u200bwas in\u2064 April 2022 when a majority of Republicans first expressed their belief that the pandemic is over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC. Patel, a doctor and contributor, urged Americans to resume wearing masks, emphasizing their importance. She encouraged people to keep masks handy, just as they did in the past, carrying them in pockets, coats, and backpacks. Patel&#8217;s message was clear: it&#8217;s time to bring masks back into our daily lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1988652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}