The Claim:
An anti-vaccine tweet suggests that COVID vaccines aren’t safe because a California physician treated more than 250 Kaiser nurses for vaccine injuries, after treating only one vaccine injury in his 20 years of practice before the pandemic.
The Facts:
This physician’s claims should be evaluated in light of his history of official medical reprimands for anti-vaccine behavior. He received a stern warning from the Medical Board of California for selling mask and face shield exemptions for students, was dismissed from his previous practice for refusing to wear a mask, and claims that he has written over 4,000 vaccine exemptions. Now, he says his family medicine and cosmetic clinic treats thousands of people with vaccine injuries.
He incorrectly tries to use VAERS data to suggest that vaccine injuries have risen 1700% since the pandemic began, even though VAERS claims are not proof that an injury was caused by a vaccine. He also calls the COVID vaccine “gene therapy” (it’s not), and admits treating his COVID patients with ivermectin, a treatment shown to be ineffective against COVID.
Perhaps most telling, he admits that vaccine injury has not killed any of his patients, but he has lost more patients to COVID in the past two years “than ever” in his 20 years of practice.
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