California Legislature Passes Bill Targeting Doctors Promoting COVID-19 ‘Misinformation’

A nurse is handed a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine before administering it to a college student at a mobile vaccination clinic at the California State University Long Beach campus in Calif., on Aug. 11, 2021. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

California’s legislature has passed a bill that takes aim at doctors who promote false and misleading information related to COVID-19, including information about COVID-19 vaccines.

The California Senate voted 32–8 to approve the bill on Aug. 29, about three months after the California Assembly passed it 53–20.