I’m an Addiction Medicine physician and I via telehealth in TN. Most of my patients are not vaccinated for COVID19. Yesterday I spoke with one patient who’s 42 year old son in law died of COVID19. She scoffed that he died of pneumonia not COVID19 and they’re just blaming COVID19. Then another patient told me they’d had four family members die of COVID19 but they still won’t get vaccinated. I’ve seen a shift over the past few weeks. More people are getting vaccinated but not nearly enough. I had a colleague who made fun of a patient who had COVID19 to other staff, made a joke about a patient being lazy and not coming into the office because they were “hacking up a lung.” This pivot towards sanity is really hard for those who followed an insane bigot in the White House blithely for five years. Thanks for speaking truth to power. And thanks to Soledad O'Brien for always backing sanity over all the crazy. Ida Santana, MD
I’m an Addiction Medicine physician and I via telehealth in TN. Most of my patients are not vaccinated for COVID19. Yesterday I spoke with one patient who’s 42 year old son in law died of COVID19. She scoffed that he died of pneumonia not COVID19 and they’re just blaming COVID19. Then another patient told me they’d had four family members die of COVID19 but they still won’t get vaccinated. I’ve seen a shift over the past few weeks. More people are getting vaccinated but not nearly enough. I had a colleague who made fun of a patient who had COVID19 to other staff, made a joke about a patient being lazy and not coming into the office because they were “hacking up a lung.” This pivot towards sanity is really hard for those who followed an insane bigot in the White House blithely for five years. Thanks for speaking truth to power. And thanks to Soledad O'Brien for always backing sanity over all the crazy. Ida Santana, MD