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PATEL: “No, that’s absolutely fair. And I’ll even go a step further and say that the federal voice, and there has still to this date been no clear, coherent messaging other than maybe from Dr. Fauci, to be candid, there has been — we are weeks behind what we should have been doing in terms of planning, a surge, even the conversations about masks, this is — again, it’s a symptom — I’m a doctor. It’s a symptom of a larger diagnosis, which is that we have an inadequate leader who has not relied on the numerous internal expertise and has decidedly made it about his polling numbers and his ratings and our country is going to suffer from it. These deaths are real. The fact that one in four people in Dallas are uninsured and we’re going to pay hospitals or expect those uninsured people, as you pointed out, to use their stimulus checks to pay for this care, that’s a slap in the face to every American. I don’t care where you live or what state you’re in.”