Local Doctor Hopes YouTube Post Reinforces Need To Wear Masks And Social Distance

EL DORADO HILLS (CBS13) – In a video making the rounds on YouTube, a doctor issued a passionate plea while breaking down what blew her mind while shopping at a Target in El Dorado Hills during the coronavirus pandemic.

There are over 11,000 views on Doctor Vanessa Walker’s video where she states that there were plenty of people at the store not practicing social distancing and shopping without masks.

“I felt safer in a hospital surrounded by patients with COVID than I did inside Target,” Dr. Walker, a pulmonary and critical care provider, said on her YouTube post.

Walker has seen firsthand just how devastating the virus is working with coronavirus patients who are using ventilators, but she said that pales in comparison to her trip to Target.

“I actually walked by a woman whose daughter commented on my mask, and the woman then made a statement about how basically, ‘She’s just too worried or too scared. Don’t worry about her, sweetie,’ ” Walker said in the video.

When asked why she made the video, Walker said...

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