Thanks to his professional role in “El desafío”, he appeared on television in 2005 and is in charge of the Caracol News section. The doctor Fernanda habla of COVID-19, who padeció, and of the retos in the pandemic.
Since then, a month and a half has passed since the ten COVID-19. Usted misma lo dio a conocer por sus sociales, con una act act méis bienquila y en tono sereno. How long has it been since I received the news now that it was great?
I’m always very tired. Geen solo porque geen tuve síntomas grafte, sino porque viví the best possible scenario: the asintomatics ¡No lo sentí! Thank you for the test, realized by way of altercation, I found out that ten COVID-19 and can aisle alarm; de lo contrario, nee my hubiera dado cuenta. In addition, know the dates and probabilities of this tranquility: up to 40% of COVID-19 cases are asymptomatic carriers (there are people who have the virus but do not develop symptoms, even if they can be transmitted to others) ¡He ahí one of the big trampolines that our path is this virus! It’s so, it’s not about comorbidities or risk factors and vivo living with vulnerable people. If the panorama is always favorable.
Usted is not the only presenter, he is also the editor of the Caracol News section. How can we discriminate between such the most relevant and scientifically proven information, all at the time of such false notices?
The pandemic hizo de salud is a theme of all periodicals and non-periodicals, but with its complexity and multiple aristocracy, salio of the manners of what we traditionally dedicate to this source. I admire that this too has been a crisis of information, among others, on the volume and speed to which it is propagated. In terms of the news and information that is within my competence, I am looking for and verifying. In addition, there is a very large number of specialists who consult particular situations. With the false positives, at the moment, the technology facility our facility has essential verification fee. Consider that it is a mandatory obligation for that which diffuses and consumes information. Contrary to what can be created, I think false notices are called an opportunity for periodism to show its value.
How is the process for organizing verified information and discussing topics to deal with, especially during this time of pandemic?
Creo que escoger los temas ha sido uno de los mayors retos, lesson en aprendizajes en un contexto muy complejo. In our case, we have an editorial board for each topic, in which we analyze and assign the themes. I participate mainly in what corresponds to the attention of the media. I believe, however, that in other respects, the media of communication are not prepared. This is the side, without hesitation, a reto for the quality periodism. It is agreed that the only way to make a difference in means of aunts, confusion and this war of information is with rigor, creativity, compromise, ethics and regulation. Hopefully it will open up for the scientific periodical and that it will be the place where the correspondence takes place.
His incursion into the media of this stage is linked to his participation in the role of medicine in the “Challenge”, dudo, in these words, in accepting the proposal?
No lo dudé. Simply when hicieron me hicieron la propuesta dije: ¿por qué no? I have to admit that I’m hated by the curiosity to know a world that you live and know that there are many prejudices. But I did not equip to accept the offer. It was a tremendous experience. It’s fun to look around because the house has rooms. In the few interviews that have been shown in many series and techniques: I’m gonna lose weight! I do not have to imagine imagining being converted in my day to day.
How did his first appearances on television, as a presenter of medical topics?
I will clarify the record, as I will do. These first appearances were made in order to deal with influenza, we are in the plenipotentiary of respiratory diseases (2005). Everything was new, it cost me a lot the theme of the time, I liked it the most. How can I talk in a minute and a half on a topic with a lot? But it will adapt, little by little it will have the ability to synthesize to store the most important thing: have a clear, concise and useful message. I believe I had the perfect opportunity to push myself to make public health. It is agreed that my work, from the means of communication, is another form of medicine.
What do you currently have a hard time sorting?
The coverage of what happened to the vaccine against the VPH (human papillomavirus) in Carmen de Bolívar was a very difficult and painful moment. But the most complex and large has been this pandemic. Many times he felt frustration and impotence. I confess that on various occasions, at the beginning, I lost. If you want to repeat the words that, precisely, about Carmen de Bolívar, some say to me: “A golondrina has not been seen”. I understand that only you can bring an arena granite and only you can change the things. I help myself to follow and work harder than I can.
What repair tends to face the phenomenon of virtuality?
Virtuality is legal to querate and transform the form in which we communicate and interact. Creo, sin dudarlo, que tiene enormes ventajas, veamos nada más la pandemia. The virus finds us in our homes, but our virtuality allows us to connect with the world. For supuesto, tiene su lado flaco. The sobriety of information, speed to what is propagated (especially the erroneous and poor intention), the lack of filters in the sources and the quality of the contents are convened in one amenity. We are not able to radiate these phenomena, but we can increase the response of different fronts and, by extension, to the major population, verification, critical thinking, media literacy, digital and informative, and in this case.
In 2014 published “Doctora, What do you like?”, A book in response to medical inquiries. Have any plans to publish another book?
For supuesto, he always wanted to do something, there were many books. And, especially, during this pandemic, at some point he thought: Are you going to retrieve the little chapters that I wrote all the days? But as the saying goes: the urgent does not have time for the important. This is a lack of discipline. In any case, I hope you can do it again.