On Feb 4, 2022, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) filed an amicus brief in federal district court in support of a motion for a preliminary injunction to block the District of Columbia’s Minor Consent for Vaccinations Amendment Act of 2020. This new law authorizes vaccinating children as young as age 11 without […]
. The FDA has granted full approval to Moderna’s messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID19 shot, Spikevax™, for persons age 18 and older. There are now two approved shots, although BioNTech’s Comirnaty is not yet available in the U.S., notes the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). The change in designation from Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) […]
In an open letter to Gerald Harmon, M.D., president of the American Medical Association (AMA), the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) objects to the AMA’s advocacy of delicensing physicians who disagree with its dogmatic views. “Why do physicians undergo a rigorous training program that is supposed to prepare them to analyze evidence and […]
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, author of the Complete Lives System for rationing care to the elderly, has written an open letter praising Dr. Anthony Fauci, which is featured on Medscape.com. The letter signed by about 300 physicians, mostly academics, states that “through HIV, Ebola, and now COVID, he has unswervingly served the United States guiding the […]
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) condemns the continued hoarding by the federal government of hydroxychloroquine, which it has kept in a stockpile while expensive new medications for Covid remain mostly unavailable. The first 10 million doses of the new Pfizer medication Paxlovid ordered by the federal government will not be available until […]
You may be asking yourself, will this ever end? The graph shows the rising incidence of COVID in both vaccinated and unvaccinated in Iceland. The Omicron variant is on the march. Everyone may eventually get it, perhaps without any symptoms. A few weeks ago, home test kits for COVID were easily obtained at your local […]
In response to calls for doubling down on costly failed public health strategies, the Arizona State Chapter of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) issued a statement that “as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on into 2022, we should not keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. If […]
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) applauds and endorses an amicus brief submitted Monday to the U.S. Supreme Court by Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, which strongly opposes Biden’s vaccine mandate on caregivers connected with Medicare or Medicaid. Biden’s vaccine mandate will interfere with care of many patients in rural America, states AAPS. “The […]
On Dec 27, 2021, AAPS, along with Jeffrey Singer, M.D., filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the court to reverse the unjust conviction of Dr. Xiulu Ruan. “The question presented, on which the circuits are deeply divided, is whether a physician alleged to have prescribed controlled substances outside the usual course […]
Now that Omicron has appeared on the scene, and mask mandates are being reinstituted, are you bringing back your old masks? Some places are now requiring N95 masks, which are claimed to remove 95% of particles above a certain size—if and only if properly fitted. This is a process that takes about 15 minutes. Men […]