On November 18, Varshavski apologized for his actions in a YouTube video, saying he "messed up" and he needed "to do better." His attendance of the party was criticized by medical professionals. Footage of the event was posted on Instagram and went viral, particularly on Reddit. On November 12, 2020, for his 31st birthday, Varshavski traveled to Miami to attend a beach party that was also attended by a number of other people without masks, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Varshavski (center) maskless on a boat in Florida In March 2020, Varshavski interviewed Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), about the pandemic. Varshavski debunked many of Judy Mikovits' claims about COVID-19 from the conspiracy film, Plandemic. COVID-19 pandemic ĭuring the COVID-19 pandemic, Varshavski reconfigured his YouTube videos to answer people's questions about the virus. In 2018, after his residency, he joined Chatham Family Medicine, a family practice with Atlantic Health System, in Chatham, New Jersey. The video of that speech has been viewed more than 3 million times. In 2017, a year after he launched his YouTube channel, Varshavski gave a TEDx Talk on "The epidemic of the 'I Know It All' expert" at a TEDx MonteCarlo event. Varshavski uses his social media to provide health information to millennials. That November, People magazine named him "the Sexiest Doctor Alive" in its Sexiest Man Alive issue, popularizing his Instagram account.
Varshavski gained media attention in August 2015 when BuzzFeed published an article about him titled "Um, You Really Need To See This Hot Doctor And His Dog" that highlighted his good looks and his relationship with his dog, a husky named Roxy. In early 2012, Varshavski joined Instagram to document his life as a medical student and combat the notion that "you can't have a life in medical school". During his first year in the program, his mother died of leukemia, and he decided to move back in with his father. In 2014, he started residency at Atlantic Health System's Overlook Medical Center’s Family Medicine program, which he completed in 2017. He enrolled in the New York Institute of Technology and was accepted for an accelerated, seven-year combined track for a bachelor's degree in life sciences and a medical degree ( Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine) upon completion of the undergraduate program. After seeing his father's relationship with his patients, Varshavski wanted to become a doctor. Varshavski was given the nickname "Doctor Mike" during his high school years by friends who came to him for sports-related injuries. In Brooklyn, his mother worked sweeping floors for minimum wage, while his father attended medical school for the second time. When he was six, he and his family immigrated to Brooklyn, New York. His father, both Jewish and Ukrainian, was a physician and a graduate of the Third Medical Institute of Moscow, while his mother was a mathematics professor. Varshavski was born on November 12, 1989, in Saransk, Russian SFSR, to a Jewish family.
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