‘Doctors dance while treating Covid’, fake video on Modena

BOLOGNA, 16 APR – Probably in the wake of the video that went viral of the “Gioca Jouer” of forensic doctors during a break in a course on autopsies, with corpses in the background, a video of a similar nature – however artfully edited and decontextualised, therefore a fake – is circulating on the Baggiovara civil hospital in Modena. The University Hospital Company itself reports this: a flashmob of doctors, a group dance, decked out in overalls and masks, dating back to May 2020 and shared to celebrate the first closure of the Covid department, was taken by web users and spread with an overlay is written to make one believe that that moment dates back to when we were experiencing the dramatic phase of intensive care full of intubated Covid patients fighting between life and death. The Modena Aou has given a mandate to its lawyers to intervene to prosecute the Facebook users who produced and shared the counterfeit video, which accuses the doctors of dancing while intubating the patients. The original film, visible to anyone on YouTube, was made when the department was declared Covid free for the first time. Staff were celebrating the first moment of respite in managing the pandemic. (HANDLE).