Your healthcare decisions are between you and your doctor and apparently his Twitter followers.

Indeed, of all the toxic trends that the coronavirus pandemic has unleashed in the United States, one of the worst is the fad where healthcare professionals trawl for attention with unflattering and likely embellished stories about their COVID-19 patients, trading the credibility of their community for a few minutes of viral fame. The only thing that makes this trend worse is that it has the blessing of a credulous news media.