{"id":10473,"date":"2025-10-01T20:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T01:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10473"},"modified":"2025-10-01T20:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T01:01:18","slug":"fighting-the-pandemic-of-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/01\/fighting-the-pandemic-of-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting the Pandemic of Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-hospitalist.org\/hospitalist\/article\/39893\/hospital-medicine\/fighting-the-pandemic-of-misinformation\/\">The Hospitalist<\/a> On November 28, 2021, scrolling through Twitter, I came across a tweet by @SailingKateMD: \u201cChecked my ICU list after being gone for a few days for the holiday\u2026Every single one of my COVID-19 patients died while I was gone. All of them.\u201d<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was my third year as an attending hospitalist. The world was moving on from the still-deadly pandemic, while we continued to struggle with waves of&nbsp; COVID-19 patients. We had new treatments, and vaccines were on the horizon, so we felt slightly less helpless, but I was still seeing more death than I ever had before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I read that tweet, I heard the voices of families saying goodbye to their loved ones, felt the deep impressions of the N95 mask on my face, and saw patients dying in their beds. Heartbreakingly, I saw the social media posts pretending it wasn\u2019t happening.<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\" QbVpRUMerSGBJ p\"> QbVpRUMerSGBJ p<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hospitalist On November 28, 2021, scrolling through Twitter, I came across a tweet by @SailingKateMD: \u201cChecked my ICU list after being gone for a few days for the holiday\u2026Every single one of my COVID-19 patients died while I was gone. All of them.\u201d1 It was my third year as an attending hospitalist. The world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10474,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473\/revisions\/10474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}