'Vigilante treatments': Anti-vaccine groups push people to leave ICUs
Source: nbc news
As the anti-vaccine movement escalates its rhetoric, doctors warn that they're dealing with the fallout: "They’re starting to target people, the messengers — nurses and doctors."
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Sept. 24, 2021, 8:08 AM CDT / Updated Sept. 24, 2021, 8:30 AM CDT
By Ben Collins
Anti-vaccine Facebook groups have a new message for their community members: Don’t go to the emergency room, and get your loved ones out of intensive care units.
Consumed by conspiracy theories claiming that doctors are preventing unvaccinated patients from receiving miracle cures or are even killing them on purpose, some people in anti-vaccine and pro-ivermectin Facebook groups are telling those with Covid-19 to stay away from hospitals and instead try increasingly dangerous at-home treatments, according to posts seen by NBC News over the past few weeks.
The messages represent an escalation in the mistrust of medical professionals in groups that have sprung up in recent months on social media platforms, which have tried to crack down on Covid misinformation. And it’s something that some doctors say they’re seeing manifest in their hospitals as they have filled up because of the most recent delta variant wave.
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“We were down to four Covid patients two months ago. In this surge, we’ve had 40 to 50 patients with Covid on four different ICU services, 97 percent of them unvaccinated,” said Wes Ely, an ICU doctor and professor of medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. “We were making headway, and now we’re just losing really, really badly. There’s something that’s happening on the internet, and it’s dramatically increasing steam.”
Those concerns echo various local reports about growing threats and violence directed toward medical professionals. In Branson, Missouri, a medical center recently introduced panic buttons on employee badges because of a spike in assaults. Violence and threats against medical professionals have recently been reported in Massachusetts, Texas, Georgia and Idaho...........................................................
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Difficult and sad to believe no can--? can they STOP this dangerous trend.
Here's the full story about "vigilante medicine" on ivermectin Facebook.
Antivaxxers are starting to wrap doctors and ICUs into their dark conspiracy theories, as they suffer at home with ad-hoc COVID treatments that don't work.
I hope you read it.
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Anti-vaccine and pro-ivermectin Facebook groups have been imploring followers to stay away from emergency rooms and hospitals.Nathan Howard / Getty Images
Ivermectin believers have become 'radicalized' and now advocate 'inhaling food-grade hydrogen peroxide': reporter
https://www.rawstory.com/ivermectin-2655171156/?cx_testId=6&cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&cx_artPos=5#cxrecs_s
September 24, 2021
Believers in treating COVID-19 with ivermectin have reportedly branched out in terms of their recommended treatments for the virus, which now include inhaling food-grade hydrogen peroxide.
NBC News reporter Ben Collins, who follows multiple pro-ivermectin and anti-vaccine Facebook groups, writes on Twitter that many of these groups have now become "radicalized" and are pushing for even more exotic remedies for COVID-19.
The problem these groups are encountering, writes Collins, is that their followers have quickly learned that ivermectin alone won't do the trick.
"So," writes Collins. "They developed a makeshift 'protocol.'"........................
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Obviously, keep taking the ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, the ivermectin groups say.
But also gargle iodine. Buy a nebulizer and inhale food-grade hydrogen peroxide.
Anything but the vaccine.
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As they’re home self-medicating, antivaxxers are furious that friends and family won’t be administered ivermectin at the hospital.
So they’ve developed directions on how to get loved ones out of ICUs: put them in hospice care, then get them the miracle cures from YouTube.
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They’ve developed elaborate conspiracy theories about doctors and nurses in the process.
They believe ventilators and remdesivir are secretly drowning patients’ lungs, not COVID itself.
QAnon boards have begun calling hospitals to harass workers for not prescribing ivermectin.
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Ivermectin Facebook is a wildly dark scene, an inverted reality where medical consensus is an elaborate conspiracy to kill you and random people on Facebook have the secret cure.
As Dr. Aditi Nerurkar tells me, "They’re starting to target the messengers—nurses and doctors.”
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