{"id":222621,"date":"2020-12-09T08:56:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T08:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=222621"},"modified":"2020-12-12T06:38:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T06:38:16","slug":"oregon-doctors-license-revoked-over-claims-covid-19-a-common-cold-and-refusal-to-wear-face-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=222621","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Doctor\u2019s License Revoked Over Claims Covid-19 a \u201cCommon Cold\u201d and Refusal to Wear Face Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"

Danielle Zoellner \u2013 The Independent Dec 5, 2030<\/strong><\/h1>\n

An Oregon doctor who was against wearing masks had his medical licence revoked after his public refusal to acknowledge the coronavirus as anything more than the \u201ccommon cold\u201d.<\/p>\n

Steven LaTulippe made headlines after attending the Stop the Steal rally in support of President Donald Trump in Salem, Oregon, on 7 November. During the rally, he called Covid-19 the \u201ccommon cold\u201d and said his staff members have not worn masks throughout the entirety of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to expose what I call corona mania,\u201d Dr LaTulippe told the rally crowd in a video that was shared to YouTube by the Multnomah County Republicans.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want you to know that I never shut down during the entire Covid season … I hate to tell you this, I might scare you, but I and my staff, none of us once wore a mask in my clinic,\u201d he said as people at the rally cheered.<\/p>\n

Dr LaTulippe owned a clinic near Portland and was attending the rally to speak about the \u201cmyth of Covid\u201d, according to NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Less than a month after the rally, on 3 December, the Oregon Medical Board issued an indefinite suspension of the man\u2019s medical licence because he “engaged in unprofessional conduct or dishonorable conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n

An investigation into the doctor\u2019s practice found that a patient asked him in July if they should get tested for the coronavirus. Dr LaTulippe reportedly told the patient that asymptomatic people should not get a test or wear a mask as there was little proof it would prevent transmission of the novel virus.<\/p>\n

The medical board also found the staff at Dr LaTulippe\u2019s clinic refused to wear masks and also encouraged patients to remove their masks. There were no coronavirus checkpoints upon entering the facility or hand sanitizer, according to the online report.<\/p>\n

This encouraged the medical board to vote on Thursday night to revoke the doctor\u2019s licene.<\/p>\n

The suspension was issued \u201cdue to the board\u2019s concern for the safety and welfare of licencee\u2019s current and future patients,\u201d the board said in a statement on its website.<\/p>\n

Dr LaTulippe will be unable to practice anywhere in the state of Oregon due to the suspension.<\/p>\n

When speaking previously to NBC News, Dr LaTulippe claimed there was \u201cbad science\u201d behind health officials telling the public to wear a mask when interacting with people outside their household in order to curb the spread of Covid-19.<\/p>\n

“I have absolutely zero problems with infectivity, and I have completely successful treatments, so I ask, ‘What is the problem?’ Why would I be demonized if I know what I’m doing?” he told the news organisation.<\/p>\n

In a report last week, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that seven studies confirmed the \u201cbenefit of universal masking in community level analyses.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CDC added: \u201cEach analysis demonstrated that, following directives from organisational and political leadership for universal masking, new infections fell significantly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Updated guidance from the CDC on Friday also implored state and local officials to \u201cissue policies or directives mandating universal use of face masks in indoor (non-household) settings\u201d \u2013 which was stronger guidance from what the CDC has previously advised.<\/p>\n

The United States has recorded more than 275,000 deaths due to the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. In comparison, a typical flu season will see about 34,000 to 42,000 deaths in the country.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is what happens to medical professionals who won’t tow the line<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":222623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222625,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222621\/revisions\/222625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}