A virtual town hall on Wednesday, organized by the office of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bronx, Queens), was missing the U.S. representative herself.
Ocasio-Cortez brought on city Commissioner of Health Dr. Dave Chokshi to talk about Covid with her constituents, but was unable to make an appearance after what her office called an “unavoidable conflict” came up at the last moment. In her absence, Chokshi held down the floor, reiterating the importance of getting vaccinated and boosted in the face of the Omicron wave, and taking questions from constituents.
“We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to see our constituents at next month’s town hall,” said an Ocasio-Cortez spokesperson.
Chokshi began his presentation by updating constituents about the progress the city has made fighting back the Omicron variant. As of this week, the seven-day case average per day has dropped below 8,000 — about a fifth of the 43,000-case-per-day peak earlier in January.
“We have climbed down from the worst of the Omicron peak, but we know we have more work to do,” he said.
Similarly the city has seen a decrease in Covid hospitalizations from a total of about 6,500 patients hospitalized citywide on Jan. 11 to under 4,700, according to the most recent state data.
The guidance for preventing more cases has stayed generally the same in recent months: Get vaccinated and get boosted, wear a mask in public, but particularly a high-quality one like a KN95, KF94 or N95, and continue to get tested and stay home if you’re positive or feeling sick.
Chokshi acknowledged that breakthrough cases for the vaccinated have increased under Omicron, but said that inoculation still has been shown in those cases to be an important form of protection from severe disease and hospitalization.
When he began taking questions from the audience, one constituent asked about the risk of blood clots from the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. Chokshi recognized that there is a “small risk” of blood clotting, “most most significant for younger women” but said overall the vaccine’s protection exceeds the risks.
“The most important thing to know is that the benefits of vaccination far outweigh any small risks,” he said.
Whatever it was that was so important to abdicate her responsibility as a representative of the people to this gaslighting weasel, she could have easily rescheduled this for another day. Especially since this was on zoom.
Apparently, Dr. Chok is more powerful than we thought.
24 comments:
Probably hiding under the bed, like Canada's Trudeau.
"the seven-day case average per day has dropped below 8,000 — about a fifth of the 43,000-case-per-day peak earlier in January"
LoL!! "Cases" is (and has always been) a total bullshit metric. Test more, cases go up. Period. Because the PCR test is shite. So yeah, back in January when all the Karens were freaking out about Moronicron (a virus that only impacts morons) everyone in white Brooklyn was waiting in nine hour lines to get a q-tip shoved up their nose. So gosh, so many cases!!!
Now, testing rates are way back down again, and so are "cases." Fake news, all of it.
"wear a mask in public, but particularly a high-quality one like a KN95, KF94 or N95"
Lol! I love the subtle shift away from cloth masks, which were always a stupid joke, but not long ago you were being told to wear one. But guess what kids, the 95 masks are ALSO a stupid joke. They do nothing. It's simply an amulet to ward of evil spirts. You'd be just as protected wearing a string of garlic around your neck.
"Chokshi acknowledged that breakthrough cases for the vaccinated have increased under Omicron"
Lol!!! Yet we have countless videos of Fraudci saying the jab was "100% effective," as well as Blood Thirsty Bourla of Fraudzer saying his poison dose was "100% effective." Only now it's.... not. And all the Karens just roll with it. "Lie to me all you like!" sez Karen. "I love it."
"but said overall the vaccine’s protection exceeds the risks"
Absolutely not true for younger people. Entirely the opposite, in fact.
As for the lovely AOC-Cups, maybe she had another fashion shoot to get to, or a dinner date with her pasty white boyfriend (that's one kind of white supremacy she's into, but then I bet he's the sub in that relationship).
So what was her "unavoidable conflict" that she couldn't attend? Her constituents would like to know.
Quack.
She probably didn’t want to be around her constituents because, you know, they smell and they’re icky
Lay off Sandy! Jeezh! She had to work a double. All the other bartenders quit!
Abuela's roof is leaking again ?
Oops. I just happened to check out these posts, and yet again I find Dr. NPC Doofus preaching his usual nonsense to his "special ed" disciples, or apprentice doofuses. Thankfully, most people aren't dumb enough to fall for his bullshit. Creeps like Dr. Doofus can be found at the wrong end of the bar counter in many a dive.
Her $80,000 Telsa dose not work well in the winter !
Thats a laugh. Was she taking his guidance when she took her trip to Florida?
Every day is Incels day when AOC appears on Queens Crap.
@NPC
More sad news.
https://www.ibtimes.com/ex-washington-state-trooper-dies-covid-19-after-refusing-get-vaccinated-3386015
Joy Behar or AOC ? Which one hurts more to listen to ...
So I had "Covid" again. Was nothing at all like the first time which was only a few months ago. 48 hours of Ivermectin, Hydroxy, and a Z pack and I am testing negative now. It seriously felt like a 24 hour head cold. I don't trust these covid tests at all. I don't trust a single thing we have been told by "the experts" at all either. All I know is I am thankful that God gave me a glorious immune system and that I remain unvaxxed from Big Pharma's clot shot.
If AOC is the only kind of gal around, even I would become a "volcel"😁
The boiler broke !
@More sad news.
You mean "more good news"
@"So I had "Covid" again. Was nothing at all like the first time which was only a few months ago. 48 hours of Ivermectin, "
I find that a quart of Clorox, 2 small bottles of Mr. Clean and a box of 4-inch nails works wonders for my Covid.
Thanks to Dr. NPC Doofus and his disciples for all this wonderful advice. Who needs real doctors anymore.
As the great Rush Limbaugh would say, “She’s a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance.” God Bless Rush and the United States of America.
Calling her a congresswoman is like calling fauci an animal lover.
She has always sounded like a high school girl trying to talk about issues she is way too young to understand.
@https://www.ibtimes.com/ex-washington-state-trooper-dies-covid-19-after-refusing-get-vaccinated-3386015
Really? The Commonwealth Fund? The Pfizer shills?
https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/addressing_disproportionate_childhood_vaccination
Here is the bio-weapon so called vaccine in action:
https://vidmax.com/video/210452-beautiful-fully-vaxxed-20yr-old-gets-covid-may-have-both-leg-s-amputated
More sad news.
https://www.ibtimes.com/ex-washington-state-trooper-dies-covid-19-after-refusing-get-vaccinated-3386015
Lol! Yes, the media digs and digs to find a handful of these stories and plasters them everywhere, while totally ignoring the hundreds of vax impact stories. Take a look, NPC.
https://thecovidworld.com/
So AOC gets Chokshi to update people on a disease that has killed close to 1 million Americans and the comments here consist of stupid whining, ignorance and lame political attacks. No wonder this country is going down the tubes.
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