Dr Richard Westreich’s fun music videos (featured below) shed light on the seriousness of COVID-19, encouraging Americans to get vaccinated and help save lives.

Double-board certified facial plastic surgeon Richard Westreich, MD, FACS, has joined the movement to help spread the truth about the efficacy and safety of the COVD-19 vaccines and to dispel misconceptions circulating on social media.

“If you’ve held off on getting a COVID-19 vaccine because you think it was created too quickly, this is definitely not the case,” Westreich stated in a press release. The vaccines have been more than three decades in the making. They were pulled off the shelf and used and began being developed for SARS-COVID-1 in 2003. This outbreak stopped and there was no need to continue. It was pulled off the shelf again in 2012 for the MERS outbreak; this was a very limited outbreak. Misinformation should not be a reason to not get vaccinated.” 

He and his medical team at New Face NY have created informational music videos featuring familiar tunes with re-tooled lyrics to encourage more Americans to “crush COVID” by getting their vaccines.

On May 14, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 36.2% of the entire U.S. population is fully vaccinated and 46.8% have received at least one dose. But medical experts agree that herd immunity is still a distant dream if more people can’t be persuaded to get the vaccine.

“Based on what we know, getting a COVID-19 vaccine also helps keep you from getting seriously ill even if you do get COVID-19 and will protect those around you,” he noted. “My staff and I created these videos as a fun way to not only shed light on a serious situation, but also to spread very important awareness about the importance of getting the vaccine and to save lives.”

Westreich graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in biological basis of behavior, neuroscience concentration in 1995 from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his medical school training at the New York University School of Medicine in 1999 with an M.D. and honors in cell biology research. He did his post-graduate training in facial plastic surgery and otolaryngology at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

He has been selected multiple times by Castle Connolly and New York magazine as one of the top doctors in facial plastic surgery. He is an assistant professor at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and is on staff at Lenox Hill and Mount Sinai Hospitals. He is a faculty member and teacher at a fellowship in facial plastic surgery at Mount Sinai. His private practice is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where he specializes in rhinoplasty, septoplasty, secondary and reconstructive rhinoplasty, facelifts, eyelid surgery and nonsurgical procedures.