Congressional candidate talks Covid-19 with the experts

Dan Feehan holds forum with medical professionals

Bracelets to good use./// thanks for joining us for kimt news 3 at ten.

I'm george mallet.

First tonight ?

"* we're hearing from medical experts in rochester who are on the frontlines fighting this pandemic.

Kimt news 3's annalise johnson joins us live with what they have to say about covid?

"*19 and the next steps to get ahead of the virus ?

"* annalise?

Xxx george ?

"* congressional candidate dan feehan hosted a virtual town hall meeting to ask doctors and nurses questions.

A lot of the conversation centered around face masks ?

"* and their role n preventing the spread of covid?

"*19.

Xxx the people in this zoom call have seen the effects of covid?

"*19 first hand... an infectious disease researcher ?

"* a primary care doctor ?

"* emergency medicine specialist ?

"* and a nurse.

"if they need to, they go to the icu."

They've seen asymptomatic patients ?

"* and patients fighting for their lives.

One thing they feel strongly about ?

"* is the role masks have to keep us safe.

"its a culture change.

Its uncomfortable to do that and acknowledge i might be sick."

They empathize with people growing weary of wearing masks and staying away from friends and family.

"we're all feeling fatigue.

This constant masking when we go out, the inability to meet with friends and family is getting to all of us and its getting harder and harder to do the things we need to do and unfortunately that's leading to more cases."

They stress the need to normalize mask?

"*wearing.

"we wash our hands after we use the bathroom, we put on underwear, we do all of these things and its not political.

Why are masks different."

While there's a lot medical professionals have learned about this new virus in the last 6 months ?

"* there's still a lot they ?

"(don't know about covid?

"*19.

"what covid has taught us is really how little we know about how the body fights off infections."

Another point these medical professionals brought up is that initially ?

"* some of the first people to bring covid?

"*9 into the country were wealthy jetsetters or people on vacation.

Now ?

"* the virus is wreaking the most havoc on poor families and communities.

Live in rochester annalise johnson kimt news 3./// thank you annalise.

The panelists and dan feehan stress that we are now feeling the results of decisions made by local?

"*state?

"* and natio leaders 6 months ago.

Decisions made ?

"(now?

"( will impact us in