USA – CA: Judge questions clarity of new California law targeting doctors who share COVID-19 misinformation

A federal judge said Monday that he couldn’t make sense of a critical provision in a new law that punishes doctors for spreading false information about COVID-19 to their patients. Senior Judge William Shubb called its definition of misinformation “nonsense” during a hearing in the United States District Court in Sacramento.

The Legislature approved the law, AB 2098, last year and it went into effect January 1. It says doctors who share false information about COVID-19 treatment options and vaccines, whether they did so deliberately or not, could be disciplined for “unprofessional conduct.” That could lead to them losing their license.

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