UCLA Medical Center is wasting no time in cleaning house of people who are not only refusing to get vaccinated, but actively assisting QAnon in keeping people from being vaccinated. For context, the network is nationally ranked in several specialities, and is putting health first.
UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA is ranked No. 3 on the Best Hospitals Honor Roll. It is nationally ranked in 14 adult and 6 pediatric specialties and rated high performing in 17 adult procedures and conditions. It is a general medical and surgical facility. It is a teaching hospital. The evaluation of UCLA Medical Center also includes data from Mattel Children's Hospital. The UCLA Medical Center is part of a network of more than 170 primary care practices throughout Southern California and has four main hospitals including Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center; UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica; UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital; and the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA.
So it should not have come as a huge surprise to Dr. Christopher Rake when he was escorted off of campus property yesterday, after making inflammatory statements about the vaccine, and attending an anti-vaxx rally with QAnon loyaties.
Besides being an embarrassment to the medical center and its network, Dr. Rake founded an organization specifically to target vaccine mandates.
A social media user recorded Dr. Christopher Rake, an anesthesiologist at UCLA Health, at an anti-vaccination rally. In the video, Rake said he was opposed to mandatory vaccination in the workplace and that he founded Citizens United for Freedom – an organization against mandatory vaccines – in response to an Aug. 5 California order that all health care workers must be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 30.
CUFF’s website lists various resources containing vaccine misinformation, including documents claiming the safety trials conducted were insufficient and a link to a website instructing people on how to obtain prescriptions for ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug that has seen a sharp uptick in use after being falsely promoted as a method to self-medicate for COVID-19.
So he backs horse paste eating too. Of course on his way out the door he launched into the usual diatribes about freedumb, and standing up, and whatever else imbedded in his brain from the Fox News crawl.
Before the firing UCLA Medical Center had this to say, from the second link:
“The comments recorded Sunday do not represent the views of UCLA Health,” said Phil Hampton, director of communications at UCLA Health, in an emailed statement. “Unvaccinated people remain at a greater risk of contracting COVID-19 and experiencing more severe symptoms, and we strongly encourage employees to be vaccinated.”
Thousands of anti-vax medical professionals are being shown the door. So if you are a rational, pro-science, and vaccinated member of that professional community, the time has never been better to move up.
Because people like Christopher Rake, are being moved out.
-ROC
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