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Wednesday, September 29th, 2021

‘Vigilante treatments’: Anti-vaccine groups push people to leave ICUs

Author:     Ben Collins
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Publication Date:     https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/vigilante-treatments-anti-vaccine-groups-push-people-leave-icus-rcna2233
 Link: ‘Vigilante treatments’: Anti-vaccine groups push people to leave ICUs
Stephan:   The anti-vaxxer death cult has become increasingly aggressive. We now have a situation where the anti-vaxxers not only are threatening the wellbeing of others, even as their own numbers sicken and die -- 2,000 people a day. Today, 95% of Covid hospital patients are unvaccinated and they are filling hospitals to a point of threatening their collapse. But even worse... well just read this fact-based report. This is an insane situation.
Anti-vaccine and pro-ivermectin Facebook groups have been imploring followers to stay away from emergency rooms and hospitals. Credit: Nathan Howard / Getty 

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.

“We were down to four Covid patients two months ago. In this surge, we’ve had 40 to […]

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