Dr. Ruy Medina criticizes the spread of misinformation about COVID-19: A call for responsible health communication

2024-01-10 23:00:00

The doctor Ruy Medinawho for more than half a century provided his services to the Dr. Antonio María Pïneda Central University Hospital and was its director and director of Health of the state of Lara, criticized the irresponsibility of those who, even posing as doctors, are spreading information, through of social networks, about a supposed new pandemic of a variant of COVID-19.

When interviewed by El Impulso, the medical professional, whose name has been a source of pride for 44 university promotions, said that the dissemination of a type of information like that is “total irresponsibility.”

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He commented that in some of the messages it is said “I am such a doctor, and they immediately add that a new strain of Covid is appearing, which is much more dangerous than others…etc, etc…” That is being irresponsible.

«I don’t know that he is a doctor because I could put a helmet on my head and say that I am a petroleum engineer, publish things related to oil, and make believe that I am an authority on the subject, because that can happen on the networks. “, said.

When making the comparison, he warned those who receive messages to be careful and not take them literally: “As long as we do not have a clear definition of a responsible laboratory on the matter, we cannot trust the information about that disease.”

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“I got measles, lechina, mumps and rubella, because there were no vaccines,” he said.

«I’m talking about the fifties, but by then the laboratories of the United States were experimenting with vaccines, which are not made because a person feels like doing it. Vaccines have a scientific process through which the germ is isolated, it is made to reproduce and a complex
procedure until effectiveness is achieved, using animals in experimentation,” he added.

Likewise, he pointed out: «The tetanus problem was achieved through the use of horses; But that is not achieved in hours or days, but over a long time, even years. How many years did Jonah Salk work until he got the polio vaccine? They were a lot. I remember that he was a third-year student and had two classmates who had polio two years ago and had a thin, atrophic leg. And when the vaccine appeared it was in drops.

He commented that although the COVID-19 vaccines were produced in about five months, they were effective because laboratories have a way to speed up procedures because technology has advanced considerably since the 1950s to this point.

He insisted on waiting for serious and responsible international health organizations to provide reliable information because there are people who, using the networks, alarm people without need.

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