The California COVID-19 Law article by Mimi Nguyen Ly and Joshua Philipp ended with great success for the medical community. On January 1st, 2023, AB 2098 was supposed to go into effect. This new California law stated that it was prohibited for medical doctors to speak out, privately or publicly, about COVID-19 vaccines or alternative treatments. Rick Jaffe, an attorney in one of the lawsuits, argues that the law represents the first effort to suppress healthcare practitioners from expressing their views on COVID-19 topics, including vaccines, to patients. In the end, this law has been put on a temporary block. If this law were to stand, it would just be the beginning of doctor suppression.
After reading about AB 2098 and empathizing with these doctors, my mood swiftly changed after reading the article about the CDC officials. Two US health officials, Drs. Katherine Fleming-Dutra and Sara Oliver of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), spread false COVID-19 child death data in public meetings in 2022. The false data was presented while US officials were weighing the emergency authorization for COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as 6 months. The study the data was cited from was corrected after the public meetings. Emails obtained by The Epoch Times show that the officials apologized to the source of the false data, Seth Flaxman, but not to the public. The CDC has not informed the public of the false information. The false data claimed at least 1,433 deaths attributed to COVID-19 among those aged 0 to 19 in the US, while the actual number was 1,088. I wonder if this was an honest mistake or a known inflation.
The final article revolved around Elon Musk and the negative side effects of his COVID-19 booster shot. At the beginning of the article, the Epoch Times fed its readers an anecdotal, unverified story about Elon Musk. In this personal piece, Musk claimed that his 2nd booster shot made him like he “was dying.” Furthermore, the article began to list many statistics of US citizens’ personal opinions about the COVID-19 vaccines and their potential negative side effects.