{"id":8114,"date":"2024-11-13T08:50:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8114"},"modified":"2024-11-13T08:50:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:50:34","slug":"medical-boards-barely-acted-amid-flood-of-covid-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/11\/13\/medical-boards-barely-acted-amid-flood-of-covid-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Boards Barely Acted Amid Flood of COVID Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/medical-boards-barely-acted-amid-flood-covid-misinformation-2024a1000ko0\">Medscape<\/a> Only a handful of physicians in the five most populous states faced medical board discipline over spreading misinformation to the community during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania, only six physicians were disciplined for disseminating medical misinformation in the first years of the pandemic, reported Richard S. Saver, JD, University of North Carolina School of Law and School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2826059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>JAMA Network Open<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the Federation of State Medical Boards had\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240518054217\/https:\/www.fsmb.org\/advocacy\/news-releases\/fsmb-spreading-covid-19-vaccine-misinformation-may-put-medical-license-at-risk\/#:~:text=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned<\/a>\u00a0physicians that sharing misinformation could risk their licenses, \u201cthe study found extremely limited discipline for physicians spreading misinformation,\u201d Saver told\u00a0<em>Medscape Medical News<\/em>. \u201cThere does seem to be a very serious disconnect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/medical-boards-barely-acted-amid-flood-covid-misinformation-2024a1000ko0\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medscape Only a handful of physicians in the five most populous states faced medical board discipline over spreading misinformation to the community during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study found. In California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania, only six physicians were disciplined for disseminating medical misinformation in the first years of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8115,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions\/8115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}