California’s new law, AB2098, took effect January 1, 2023, giving that state’s medical board the ability to sanction doctors who dispense Covid “misinformation” to their patients. The law defines Covid misinformation as advice “contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus.” Critics are calling it a chilling case of suppression of constitutionally protected speech. Various legal maneuvers are in play to overturn it.
“One of the things many patients want to discuss is the current vaccine booster and whether they should take it,” Dr. LeTrinh Hoang wrote to the Board in a legal filing December 6. She is a pediatric osteopathic physician in Arcadia, California, licensed by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California for more than 25 years. “In addition to advising patients that the booster has been authorized for use by the FDA, I advise patients that it has only been tested in less than a dozen mice. The data supporting the use of booster was not reviewed by the FDA’s scientific vaccine advisory committee … I have reviewed AB 2098 and I cannot tell from the law whether providing these facts to patients is ‘Covid misinformation.’”










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