You’ve never filled out a death certificate, never treated a dying COVID patient, and your evidence is “my friend” plus whatever circulated in your Facebook group. I have filled out death certificates. I know what “underlying cause of death” means, and I know the legal and professional consequences of falsifying one. If someone dies from traumatic injuries in a car crash, COVID does not magically become the cause of death because they happened to test positive. You are taking an anecdote you cannot verify and using it to accuse physicians across the country of fraud. And calling me a “dumb fuck” does not improve the evidentiary quality of the anecdote.

Yes, Jill. I know the ingredients in the vaccines. I studied virology at the University of Chicago before becoming a surgeon. The ingredients are publicly available. So are the clinical trial results and safety data. You call it a “killer vaccine” without offering evidence, then suggest I profited from it without evidence. As Christopher Hitchens observed, what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. A medical degree doesn’t make someone infallible. But an accusation without evidence doesn’t make someone informed.