Growing Concerns Over Impact Of Medical Misinformation On Public Health

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[JJwest]

So grateful to be "unvaccinated."

[beansmcdonough]

Misinformation like "the vaccine works"?

[jayc]

Fun fact: the unvaccinated are still alive

[robotron]

*Nobel Prize winner, Kary Mullis, inventor of PCR test:* "With PCR, if you do it well, you can find almost anything in anybody. It starts making you believe in the sort of Buddhist notion that everything is contained in everything else. Because if you can amplify one single molecule up to to something that you can really measure, which PCR can do, then there’s just very few molecules that you don’t have at least one single one of them in your body. So that could be thought of as a misuse of it just to claim that it’s meaningful. ... It’s just a process that’s used to make a whole lot of something out of something. *It doesn’t tell you that you’re sick and it doesn’t tell you that the thing you ended up with really was gonna hurt you or anything like that."*

[sleepyjoe]

Safe and efficient sounds like misinformation.

[flobiekenobi]

It's not misinformation, it's because the government overreached and now people are hesitant of impulsive political government mandates

[bboytata]

Thank you god I’m I’m unvaccinated ! 🙌🏽

[ohiostate]

You continue to make it seem like the vaccine is good. since the states are 80% vaccinated my theory is no matter what these viruses will continue to impact that population of vaccinated.

[winnmatthews]

You all who are making accusations of misinformation have been proven wrong and caught lying! 🤣

[jetstream]

The only misinformation I am aware of is coming from pharma paid msm.

Cost and availability is the real problem....why is there profit in health insurance.

Non profit single payer would be better.

[dannyoberthier]

why censor and threaten doctors who claim otherwise based on facts?

[selanryn]

Can we finally stop calling them 'pro-life' now?

[nathanhensn]

It's really not thay difficult, if you are extremely high risk you should get the shot, if you're not then you should run away from it.

[coryyoung]

Why didn't you promote healthy eating and exercise to help give the body the best chance as well as the vaccine? Missed-information cost lives

[RealDeanWinchester]

Personally, I love myocarditis and blood clots. I can't get enough of that 🤣.

[DLFfitness]

You can’t help folks that don’t want to help themselves.

[Ver]

Research only on sites with reputable, verifiable, official, and properly credentialed information. "If it is on the internet, then it must be true" is simply not true.

[Lemmy.z.miles]

This segment brings up crucial topics of physician trust and the importance of the patient/physician relationship. It is interesting how so many individuals have decided to trust information regarding vaccinations from media sources, opposed to having a direct conversation with their personal physician. A prominent principal in medical ethics is the right and requirement for every patient to receive information from their physician on every diagnosis, potential treatment options, and alternatives that the patient may have before getting a patients consent for any medical action. Individuals who are do not take their concerns to their primary care physician are at risk of being more susceptible to false information that may not be congruent with a physician's advice, which could lead to physician distrust, and snowball into a cycle of increasingly worse outcomes for the patient. This also brings up the issue that due to a decrease in the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine, children who are at risk may be put in greater danger for contracting this terrible disease due to a lack of "herd immunity." This concept requires a large number of the population to be immunized against a specific disease, in order to decrease transmission to immunocompromised individuals or people who are unable to receive this vaccination due to allergies or other adverse complications. Justice for all individuals in the field of medicine is important, and placing other individuals at risk on the basis of false information will have deadly effects on a community.

[cg]

Media and government lied about so many things. But I should trust them

[cherylcarlson]

Have been a goat farmer as well as nurse. Really sad when you must herd the undereducated like goats because they refuse to LEARN.