Medical Conference Cancels Keynote Over Professor’s Opposition to Child Masking, COVID Vaccines

‘Your voices have been heard,’ the American College of Clinical Pharmacy told members.

Children wear masks in Los Angeles, Calif., on Jan. 5, 2022. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

A medical conference has canceled a keynote address scheduled to be delivered by a California professor, after people complained about the professor’s stances against forcing children to wear masks and promoting COVID-19 vaccines without randomized clinical trial data.

Dr. Vinay Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist and professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, was scheduled to deliver the keynote at the American College of Clinical Pharmacy’s meeting in November.