A group of California doctors opposed to vaccination has joined the fight against a new state law restricting the advice doctors can give patients about COVID-19, filing the third federal lawsuit against the measure in three months.
The new law authorizes the Medical Board of California to sanction and revoke the licenses of doctors who spread information that challenges the “contemporary scientific consensus” about COVID-19. The law is due to take effect Jan. 1.
Filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, the latest lawsuit takes issue with the law for amending state code to target doctors who question “the development, safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.