Health Care & Hospital Law,
Government
Nov. 3, 2022
Doctors challenge California’s COVID misinformation law
Five physicians suing the state over a law that says they could lose their license over giving patients’ “COVID-19 misinformation” say the new statute doesn’t define “consensus.”
Who speaks for doctors — and who gets to define what is a “scientific consensus”?
Five physicians have raised these questions in a challenge to a COVID-19 misinformation law sponsored by the California Medical Association.
“The term ‘contemporary scientific consensus’ is undefined in the law and undefinable as a matter of logic,” argued a complaint signed by Pleasant Hill based attorney Laura B. Powell filed Tues...
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