The following is an excerpt from an article by Hannah Mitchell in Becker’s Hospital Review.
Springfield, Mo.-based CoxHealth CEO Steven Edwards has been at the center of several viral tweets over the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, he discussed with Becker’s the motivations behind those tweets, the responses to his tweets within hospital walls and the responsibility of being a CEO activist.
In a July 1 tweet, Mr. Edwards said, “If you are making wildly disparaging comments about the vaccine, and have no public health expertise, you may be responsible for someone’s death. Shut up.”
He was also recently sued for a tweet he made after the mother of a young patient took issue with “COVID” being used as a promo code for free telehealth visits. The woman posted on Facebook saying she didn’t want her son associated with the word “COVID,” and Mr. Edwards tweeted that the promo code was not “part of a conspiracy theory.”
The CEO told Becker’s the tweets are necessary to combat misinformation in the county as delta variant cases spread rapidly. He’s heard claims not based on facts, such as that the vaccine causes infertility and that masks cause the virus to spread. Even local politicians have ignited misinformation campaigns in his community. (Continued…)
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