Department of Medicine

Laura Scherer, a researcher at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said such distrust for medical authority is nothing new. She co-authored a recent study that found people who believe online misinformation about one health topic, such as phony cancer cures, are apt to believe it about others, like the supposed danger of the human papillomavirus vaccine.

“The new wave of COVID patients in predominantly unvaccinated people may ultimately break the souls of my colleagues,” said Marc Moss, head of Pulmonary Sciences Critical Care Medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine-Anschutz. “We will continue to provide excellent care to patients, but many healthcare workers are simply exhausted.”

“After receiving my first vaccine shot in our hospital auditorium, I cried with joy when I realized I might not die in the line of service, and with a sense of relief I immediately returned to the ICU to care for my COVID patients. There was hope. However, that December sense of hope now seems short-lived,” says Marc Moss, Head of The Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine-Anschutz.