Well youre correct its clearly rubbish but as a physician I have no idea what to suggest
There is a post online circulating by someone who says that she has been in pediatrics for 8 years. Her post indicates that she believes that Covid-19 has been moving through the United States for several months. She describes symptoms, cases she has had come into the practice she works at, and says that she would send samples off for testing if it was possible.Her post has been shared almost 300,000 times. In most of the local posts, there are about 30-50 likes. That means that this is reaching upwards of 15 million people.I am also in the medical field, but as someone who helps make decisions for at-risk patients. In my small town in Florida, this nurse's post has been shared by half of my town. The comments are all in agreement - they've all had this before. It's utter nonsense, shared by people who simply don't understand the first thing about medicine or pandemics.I contacted this nurse this morning and informed her that her post is spreading through my community as well as others, and that it is being used to suggest that people don't need to take this seriously, do not need to socially isolate, etc. I asked her to recant and print a retraction. She threatened to sue me for stalking her. She then went and put a disclaimer on her post telling people to take Covid-19 seriously. The issue is - her words are being copy and pasted, and not shared, so people are still reading her post without the disclaimer. And they're taking it as gospel.I decided this afternoon to call her office, only to find out that there was no way to bring this to her doctor's attention without going through her. She already told me that she manages the Facebook page. Apparently she also screens the emails to her doctor, according to the receptionist. There is no way to contact this doctor directly, and I have tried every way possible. I am hesitant to report her to the board of nursing, and even if I did, I don't have her information.Should I let this be? All I want is for her to print a retraction and remove her original post - I don't want to personally be involved, I just don't want the locals in my town to buy her conspiracy theories. I don't know what to do from here.