Meet Doctor Suing Rhode Island Over Vaccine Mandate

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🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Stephen Skoly's request for a medical exemption to the state's vaccine mandate was denied. Then the Rhode Island Department of Health ordered him to stop his critical surgical care in October.

Now, represented by the Washington, D.C.- based civil rights group the New Civil Liberties Alliance, he is suing Rhode Island to stop the state from prohibiting him from practicing medicine.

Skoly shares with "The Daily Signal Podcast" why he asked for a medical exemption to the vaccine mandate, what he hopes to gain through his lawsuit, his views on the vaccines as a medical professional, and more. "I would think that in most instances a vaccination like this that was authorized under emergency use authorization, you should have some freedom of choice and some freedoms that exist still in America," he says.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Thursday, February 10th on Doug Blair.
0:11.2	And I'm Mary Margaret Olehann.
0:13.2	Dr. Steven Scully, a Rhode Island surgeon, has been prohibited by the state from practicing
0:17.8	medicine over his vaccination status.
0:20.6	The Daily Signal recently broke the news that Dr. Scully is suing Rhode Island after the
0:24.9	state health department denied his medical exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine and ordered
0:29.9	him to cease his critical surgical care in October.
0:33.6	He'll explain to us why he needed this exemption and give us his take on COVID vaccine mandates
0:38.8	as a medical professional.
0:40.6	Before we get to that interview with Dr. Scully, let's hit our top news stories of the day.
0:57.4	As more and more state lawmakers announced that they will be ending mass mandates, the
1:01.6	head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Rochelle Wolensky, announced
1:06.6	Tuesday that the agency will not yet recommend relaxing mass restrictions.
1:11.4	We are not there yet, Wolensky said.
1:14.0	Here's what else she had to say on the matter via ABC.
1:17.2	We are prepared.
1:18.2	We are working on that guidance.
1:19.6	We are working on following the trends for the moment.
1:24.2	What I will say, though, is, you know, our hospitalizations are still high.
1:28.4	Our death rates are still high.
1:30.2	So as we work towards that and as we are encouraged by the current trends, we are not there yet.
1:36.8	New York Governor Kathy Hocal announced Wednesday that the state will be dropping its
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