Doctors are spreading COVID disinformation. California needs to do something about it

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Sep. 6, 2022 | Seema Yasmin

[artichokegrower]

The patient’s wife was crying on the other end of the phone. It was 2020 and her husband was in the intensive-care unit with COVID. He was getting sicker each day, and the medicine their family doctor had prescribed “might have stopped working,” she explained.

[artichokegrower]

Misinformation spread by medical professionals wreaks a particular type of misery. In my research, I found that the spread of false health information inflicts the deepest damage when retweeted and reaffirmed by those we entrust with our bodies in our most vulnerable moments. But even as a misinfodemic continues to spread alongside COVID, there has been little recourse against medical professionals who exploit their platform and accolades to spread lies.

Like the lie that thorugh genital mutilation a young person can change their gender.

[mikelets456]

As soon as I hear or read “misinformation/disinformation” I know quickly what the author is doing is lying propaganda.

[moovova]

What a little Nazi she is...

[RWGinger]

Demx lie with impunity.
It is very scary

[teeman8r]

yes... the doctor wants those who prescribed hydroxychloriquin to be punished, but the patient got better from covid...

who’s the pusher of bad advice doc?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Narcissism kills.

[butlerweave]

Lying Government says Doctors lie ? LOL

[Skywise]

Is this, so-called, Doctor aware that the CDC just approved Hydroxychloroquine for Covid therapy?

Who’s spreading the misinformation now?

[Da Coyote]

Our leftist journalists keep using that word “misinformation”.

I don’t think it means what they think it means.

[Navy Patriot]

What’s worse than a president pushing unproven cures?

That's easy, what's worse is a good little Information Nazi like Seema Yasmin pushing Cancellation for deviation from the Party Line and a Marxist Rag like the San Fagscisco Cornholicle.

[paterfamilias]

Quid est veritas? (Pontius Pilate)

[Chauncey Gardiner]

I know more people who either died from the death jab or were severely injured from it than those who died from Covid itself. As for those who died from Covid, most were killed by the CDC Guidelines, which are a death sentence IMHO.

[logi_cal869]

The rest of the story (from the source):

Last week, a new bill, AB2098, designed to counter the spread of COVID falsehoods spread by medical professionals, passed both houses of the California Legislature. The bill follows last year’s warning by the Federation of State Medical Boards that doctors who share misinformation risk disciplinary action by medical boards. But so far, not a single state has codified that policy. If signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, AB2098 would make California the first state to take legal action against medical professionals who spread COVID lies. These medical professionals could face disciplinary action for unprofessional conduct by the Medical Board of California or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California. As a result, their state medical licenses could be suspended or revoked.

The bill defines unprofessional conduct as spreading false information about COVID and its treatments. It defines misinformation as “false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus contrary to the standard of care.” Some critics have argued that since standards of care can shift during emergencies, this definition jeopardizes the foundation of the scientific process, which includes the intellectual freedom to push back against a consensus view.

Having witnessed firsthand the sickness and angst caused by doctors who spread lies, however, I believe this bill is an important first step in holding accountable the people we trust with our lives.

Yes, there is a chance that this bill could backfire. Suspending or revoking licenses may not deter some medical professionals; it might fan the flames of fame and falsehoods. Some doctors have flipped negative publicity to boost social media followings, decry a deep state that suppresses free speech, aligned themselves with high-ranking public officials who also spread anti-science lies and become the go-to doctors for those seeking illegitimate vaccination exemptions.

(the bias in this one is strong. Clearly she is a vaxxer...a distinct irony, if not utter hypocrisy)

So, in consideration that my BIL - an AMA/board certified/licensed orthopedic surgeon - suffered a near-fatal 100% blockage of his LAD this weekend in what his doctors have classified as a 'massive' heart attack, I wonder:

Will all the doctors who peddled the lipid hypothesis and the fat is bad for you/cholesterol causes CVD be held to account for THEIR lies and misinformation over the past half century???

(not holding my breath)

[libertylover]

The left’s push to totalitarian government continues.

[Dr. Sivana]

For every epidemic, there is a clout-chasing snake oil salesperson touting fake cures.

So, the doctor who tells people to buy a penny-ante around for ages treatment like hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin is a "salesman" while the Moderna and Pfizer blanket the airwaves with their propaganda for their ineffective but expensive and patented concoctions on the taxpayer dime, enlisting an army of agencies and government bureaus to extort the entire population to submit while being immune from legal responsibility for the results of their products. They aren't snake oil salesmen. They are scientists.

[Arcadian Empire]

The totalitarian Vax Cult wants to destroy freedom of speech.

[Disambiguator]

That excerpt includes the term “scientific consensus” which is a giveaway to what is really going on.

[mewzilla]

Current status...

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2098

[Flick Lives]

As soon as I hear or read “misinformation/disinformation” I know quickly what the author is doing is lying propaganda.

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the most egregious is the term “maliformation”; a term coined by FedGov as true information, but information deemed “harmful” by the State.

https://www.cisa.gov/mdm

[ProudGOP]

Doctor aware that the CDC just approved Hydroxychloroquine for Covid therapy?

Do you have a link?