Overview
- VCU Health first placed the employee on leave during an investigation and said Tuesday night the individual was no longer employed.
- The videos urged tactics such as filling syringes with saline or succinylcholine, spraying poison ivy or oak water, and spiking drinks with Ex-Lax.
- The clips were posted to a now-deleted TikTok account and gained wide reach after a Libs of TikTok compilation on X.
- Multiple outlets identified the employee as Malinda Rose Cook, a CRNA, by matching VCU Health and Doximity profiles to the person in the videos.
- Coverage noted succinylcholine is a short-acting paralytic that can be dangerous if misused; no public record of criminal charges tied to the videos had been reported.