Unvaccinated oral surgeon sues after his medical practice shut down in Rhode Island

Sacramento Bee ^ | FEBRUARY 08, 2022 | Julia Marnin

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An unvaccinated oral surgeon has filed a lawsuit in Rhode Island after his medical practice, which saw over 800 patients each month, was shut down over him not getting a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the New Civil Liberties Alliance.

He was banned from work as an oral surgeon, unless he got vaccinated, the same day Rhode Island’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers went into effect on Oct. 1, according to an order by the state health department.

Now, Dr. Stephen Skoly is suing the state’s Gov. Daniel McKee and the interim director of the state’s health department arguing that “Rhode Island has arbitrarily and unlawfully prevented (him) from practicing medicine.” The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island by the NCLA on Feb. 4.

The Rhode Island Department of Health declined to comment on the lawsuit. A spokesperson for the governor’s office told McClatchy News that it would not comment on pending litigation.

Skoly, who’s been a dental surgeon since 1990, requested medical exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine because of his history of Bell’s palsy paralysis, the complaint says, and he says he has “natural immunity” against the virus because of a “blood test” that confirmed he has COVID-19 antibodies. It added he’s “not an anti-vaxxer.”

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Israel National News, 2/3/22:

According to Prof. Yaakov Jerris, director of Israel’s Ichilov Hospital’s coronavirus ward: “Right now, most of our severe cases are vaccinated,” Jerris told Channel 13 News. “They had at least three injections. Between seventy and eighty percent of the serious cases are vaccinated. So, the vaccine has no significance regarding severe illness, which is why just twenty to twenty-five percent of our patients are unvaccinated.” ...

Jerris also revealed some of the confusion in reporting cases. Speaking at a cabinet meeting on Sunday, he told ministers, “Defining a serious patient is problematic. For example, a patient with a chronic lung disease always had a low level of oxygen, but now he has a positive coronavirus test result which technically makes him a ‘serious coronavirus patient,’ but that’s not accurate. The patient is only in a difficult condition because he has a serious underlying illness.”

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