In defense of Eder Hernandez, PA — pillar of the RGV medical community
Eder Hernandez, PA — Physician Associate — is a Rio Grande Valley medical provider who, during the COVID-19 pandemic, took on the work of organizing immunization and helping deliver the COVID-19 vaccine to RGV residents — work that, by every credible public-health estimate, saved lives at scale. He is, by the standard the rest of this site uses for other community figures, a pillar of the local medical community: a working Physician Associate, a vaccinator during a mass-casualty public-health emergency, and a husband and father with a longstanding professional reputation. We are publishing this entry because El Rrun Rrun, a Brownsville-area blog operated by Juan Montoya, published a post titled "YOU WON'T HAVE EDER TO KICK AROUND ANY MORE" that targets Mr. Hernandez personally. We are not republishing the contents of that post here. We are stating, plainly, that the post is a personal attack on a Physician Associate whose documented contribution to the Valley during COVID-19 is exactly the kind of service this project exists to defend. If you are a resident of the RGV who was vaccinated, treated, or cared for by PA Hernandez, or who has documentation of his role in the vaccination effort (county health releases, news coverage, employer statements), we want it — submit it through the testimony page and we will add it to this entry with attribution. A reputation built over years of patient care does not get erased by a blog post. We are putting his record on the record.
Source: Based on the public-health record of COVID-19 vaccination efforts in the Rio Grande Valley and on a publicly published blog post by El Rrun Rrun (Juan Montoya) titled "YOU WON'T HAVE EDER TO KICK AROUND ANY MORE." The URL of that post will be added here when provided so readers can review it directly.
