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A Warning From Shanghai
A Warning From Shanghai
A staff member disinfects a temporary hospital in the National Exhibition and Convention Center Shanghai on April 8, 2022. (Photo by Jin Liwang/Xinhua via Getty Images)
A new California bill threatens to strip doctors of their medical licenses for saying things the state doesn’t like. We don’t have to imagine what that would look like.
By Jay Bhattacharya
04.12.22 — International
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A Warning From Shanghai

Remember when we were told that China was a model for the world in controlling Covid? Sure, as a totalitarian state, it was able to weld people inside their homes and monitor its citizens via drone. But many in the West believed that such measures were necessary. They argued that the abandonment of personal liberty was an appropriate way to fight a resp…

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Jay Bhattacharya

Prof. of Health Policy, Stanford Medicine. Health policy, infectious disease epidemiology, Scientific freedom. Co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration. Proprietor of "The Illusion of Consensus" with Rav Arora on Substack.

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