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Informed Consent and Citizens’ Rights in the Age of COVID

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Informed Consent and Citizens’ Rights in the Age of COVID
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, a professor of psychiatry at UC Irvine's School of Medicine, in Irvine, Calif., on Oct. 27, 2021. Jack Wang/The Epoch Times
Jan Jekielek
Jeff Minick
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“People need to be able to ask questions,” says Dr. Aaron Kheriaty. “That’s central to what it means to live in a free society.”

In back-to-back episodes of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek discussed the pandemic, informed consent, and citizens’ rights with Kheriaty, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California Irvine’s School of Medicine and director of the medical ethics program at UCI Health. For filing an August lawsuit challenging his university’s vaccine mandates on behalf of himself and others who have natural immunity, Kheriaty was suspended and the school put him on “investigatory leave.”
Jan Jekielek is a senior editor with The Epoch Times, host of the show “American Thought Leaders.” Jan’s career has spanned academia, international human rights work, and now for almost two decades, media. He has interviewed nearly a thousand thought leaders on camera, and specializes in long-form discussions challenging the grand narratives of our time. He’s also an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producing “The Unseen Crisis,” “DeSantis: Florida vs. Lockdowns,” and “Finding Manny.”
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