America's Frontline Doctors Plans to Open Clinics as California Medical Board Investigates Founder

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Great news, everyone! The Trumpist doctor group that gave hundreds of thousands of Rx's for hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin and made millions on the back end is opening clinics!

This country is fine. [insert meme]

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America’s Frontline Doctors Plans to Open Clinics as California Medical Board Investigates Founder
The “disinformation doctors” are expanding, even as Congress and state medical boards scrutinize the operation and the group’s founder, Simone Gold.
theintercept.com
6:53 AM · Dec 20, 2021

https://theintercept.com/2021/12/20/americas-frontline-doctors-covid-clinics/

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AMERICA’S FRONTLINE DOCTORS, an organization that has been widely criticized for spreading false information about Covid-19 vaccines and advocating for potentially dangerous replacements, is expanding. According to a newsletter the group sent to its supporters last week, “AFLDS is opening its first medical clinic in the coming months, with many more planned shortly after.” The email includes a link to forms that can be filled out by doctors and nurses who want to work with AFLDS, and pharmacists who want to fill prescriptions for unproven Covid-19 medications, so they can become part of the AFLDS network.

The expansion comes amid increased scrutiny of AFLDS from the media, Congress, and the Medical Board of California. Doctors associated with AFLDS have prescribed hundreds of thousands of patients hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin through a telemedicine service, hacked records obtained by The Intercept revealed in September. And the network of online health care companies associated with AFLDS have charged patients millions of dollars. In October, citing The Intercept’s report and related reporting by Time magazine, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis announced an investigation into AFLDS and the companies it works with, calling them “predatory actors” that have been “touting misinformation and using it to market disproven and potentially hazardous coronavirus treatments.”

Pressure has been mounting for the California medical board to strip AFLDS’s founder, Simone Gold, of her license in the state. Gold, who was arrested and charged after the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, refers to Covid-19 vaccines as “experimental biological agents.” The Intercept confirmed that the board is actively investigating Gold, though it declined to share further information about the investigation or make any statements about Gold, saying that such matters are confidential until the state attorney general’s office files a complaint.

Earlier this month, the president of California’s medical board, Kristina Lawson, alleged that people who identified themselves as members of AFLDS followed and intimidated her. Lawson described the ordeal in a Twitter thread. She said the group parked an SUV at the end of her driveway in Walnut Creek, flew a drone over her house, watched her children drive to school, and then followed her to work. When she left work, she said four men “ambushed” her in a dark parking garage with cameras, saying they wanted to interview her. Lawson said they never contacted her, the medical board’s press office, or her company asking for an interview through professional channels. “I’m not going to be intimidated by these terrorizing tactics,” Lawson told MSNBC, noting that she has since hired private security. The California board declined to answer specific questions from The Intercept about the incident.

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[Mary in S. Carolina]

1. Pull their licenses already!

How hard is that!!!

[jmbar2]

2. This could possibly be a good thing

If they require these "clinics" to take full responsibility for the patients' care, and not transfer them to science-based facilities when the turn critical, it could keep the morons out of our science-based health system.

In other words, if they want to break the patients, they own them.

[tanyev]

6. True. All these people who think the hospitals are treating Covid wrong

can go to these clinics instead. And good luck with that.

[Tomconroy]

3. When will Simone Gold be put on trial for Jan 6? She's obviously

afraid to plead guilty and be sentenced to prison time.

[Irish_Dem]

4. A separate health care system for the unethical and stupid?

[mainer]

5. They'll get sued out of existence

A few patient disasters, and lawyers will be rubbing their hands with glee.
Plus, good luck getting malpractice insurance. They'll have to practice bare.