clutchcargo wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 3:44 pm This article seems topical (my bolding)

Doctors say they're dealing with significantly more patients who resist their advice because of misinformation they read online

“This is no longer just an anecdotal observation that some individual doctors have made,” Daniel Allington, a senior lecturer at King’s College London told the Times. “This is a statistically significant pattern that we can observe in a large survey.” Allington is also a coauthor of a recent study that found people who got their news online were more likely to believe in conspiracy theories and not follow public health guidelines compared to those who got their news from radio or television.

Some patients have demanded prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine, a medication that the Food and Drug Administration revoked from emergency hospital use for COVID-19 in June after studies found it was not effective against the virus and had potentially dangerous side effects. Last month, clips of a Breitbart video touting misinformation about the coronavirus and hydroxychloroquine quickly went viral on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, and were retweeted by President Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr.

The Times reported that some people have gone to hospitals to demand doctor’s notes so they don’t have to wear a face mask because they believed online rumours that masks lower their oxygen levels.

Dr. Ryan Stanton, an emergency room physician in Kentucky, told The Times a number of patients waited until it was almost too late to benefit from treatment before going to the hospital with COVID-19 symptoms. The patients, according to Stanton, didn’t believe the coronavirus was a “big deal.” “They thought it was just a ploy, a sham, a conspiracy,” Stanton told The Times. “It just blew my mind that you can put these blinders on and ignore the facts.”

Last week, a study from the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene found that at least 800 people died in the first three months of 2020 because of false information that claimed drinking bleach could cure coronavirus. Almost 6,000 people were also hospitalized because of that claim, Business Insider previously reported. Parinda Warikarn, a doctor in New York, told The Times she saw a patient who ingested bleach because he thought it would prevent the virus. “He clearly really believed that he was going to prevent Covid,” she said. “Luckily, his wife and two young children didn’t take this solution.”

Dr. Howard Mell, an emergency room physician in Illinois told The Times that the wife of a patient who died from the novel coronavirus yelled at him for writing COVID-19 on the man’s death certificate and accused him of doing it for profit. “She yelled, ‘We’ve seen online how you guys get more money,'” Mell said.

Mell told The Times he deals with several patients each week who strongly believe false information they read online.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/doct ... ion-2020-8

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 7:58 am

glennb6 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 7:12 am

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 9:14 pm

glennb6 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 6:39 pm Vit C = cheap, inexpensive.

HCQ = cheap, inexpensive.

Vaxes that don't exist = expensive

As the above two posters indicate, you're trolling with this nonsense and it's not helpful to genuine discussion going forward. Suggest you back off or some time off is in order.

clutch, you a forum mod or just recommending censorship and limiting free speech?

Well, as a mod I step in when I think a member is trolling and/or spreading misinformation/nonsense which disrupts or derails discussions.

And I see you just name called a member in the post above so I think it's best you have a few days off.