It is a “violation of ethics” that one physician should decide whether 40 million Americans in California get vaccinated against COVID-19 according to Dr. Christopher Rake, an anesthesiologist at the UCLA Medical Center.
As has been the case with numerous states across America, California’s Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued a mandate in early August stating that health workers must be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 30.
Rake refused to have the vaccine, or file for a religious exemption, due to his own “philosophical objections to the mandate” and as a consequence, the UCLA doctor was placed on unpaid administrative leave earlier in October.
