Surgeon general urges US fight against COVID misinformation

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: AP

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Thursday called for a national effort to fight misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines, urging tech companies, health care workers, journalists and everyday Americans to do more to address a “serious public threat.”

In a 22-page advisory, his first as President Joe Biden’s surgeon general, Murthy wrote that bogus claims have led people to reject vaccines and public health advice on masks and social distancing, undermining efforts to end the coronavirus pandemic and putting lives at risk.

The warning comes as the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations has slowed throughout the U.S., in part because of vaccine opposition fueled by unsubstantiated claims about the safety of immunizations and despite the U.S. death toll recently passing 600,000.

“Limiting the spread of health misinformation is a moral and civic imperative that will require a whole-of-society effort,” wrote Murthy, who also served as surgeon general under former President Barack Obama.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/surgeon-general-urges-us-fight-against-covid-misinformation/ar-AAMbOaS?li=BBnb7Kz

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Sad thing of it is we have some elected officials who are spreading misinformation.

[chocolatpi]

1. Our local media in AZ

is focused on the Sun's (super-spreader gate and bar parties)games. Are the recent increase in cases related, or is it to soon?

Any normal year, I would be joining my son-in-law to watch the game and celebrate any victories. Not this year, I am vaccinated(Pfizer) and cautiously optimist.

[IronLionZion]

2. Tucker and Fox News should face some legal consequences

A lot of RW media and social media are sharing easily disproved and dangerous misinformation.

[orleans]

3. some of those assholes in congress should face legal consequences too nt

[GB_RN]

4. Someone Please Tell Zuckerberg

That this also includes Fecesbook. His outfit could do a whole lot more (which is already next to nothing) to combat this stuff.

[ck4829]

5. K&R

[modrepub]

6. Let The Market Decide

For each person who shows up at a hospital with COVID and voluntarily didn't get the vaccine (or start getting it), that state and county gets a deduction from it's federal infrastructure stimulus or COVID relief allotment. The state and county where the sick person resides should also have to pay for the COVID test to confirm the person is positive. A portion of the deduction in federal money should go to the hospital and county where the hospital resides to help offset the costs of treating someone who should have done their civic duty.