Doctor suspended for sending out blank vax exemptions

The Connecticut Department of Public Health says it has suspended the licence of a doc who was allegedly mailing blank and signed COVID-19 vaccine exemption forms to radical who requested them.

In a property merchandise connected Friday, the section said it had suspended the doc and surgeon licenses of Dr. Sue Mcintosh, a retired doc from Durham, Connecticut.

The section alleged Mcintosh was mailing blank and signed forms that would assistance a diligent the quality to thwart COVID-19 vaccine mandates, investigating requirements oregon disguise mandates.

"Dr. Mcintosh provided these forms without ever seeing a patient, and the paperwork was sent to anyone who supplied a self-addressed stamped envelope to her," the section wrote successful its press release.

Documents provided by the wellness department amusement that the bureau received an anonymous extremity regarding the alleged strategy successful precocious July. In September, investigators sent Mcintosh a missive with a self-addressed stamped envelope and received the blank aesculapian exemption forms successful the mail.

According to documents provided by the state, Mcintosh would nonstop the signed and blank forms backmost to patients on with a enactment that work "keep blank copies for yourself for aboriginal use," and, "let state ring!"

She besides encouraged radical to transcript and administer the forms "as you privation to anyone."

"These actions by Dr. Mcintosh are irresponsible and unacceptable," Connecticut Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Manisha Juthani said successful a statement. "Her signifier of medicine represents a wide and contiguous information to the nationalist wellness and information of our communities. The suspension of her licence should service arsenic a informing to different practitioners that this behaviour deviates from the modular of attraction and is taxable to superior discipline."