A Maine medical licensing board has temporarily suspended the license of a veteran physician for allegedly spreading “misinformation” about COVID-19 as it conducts a 30-day investigation that will require her to undergo a psychological examination.
Dr. Meryl Nass, who been a board-licensed internal physician for more than 40 years, was the subject of two complaints based, among other things, on her statements that the vaccines have serious safety issues and are ineffective at stopping infection and transmission of the virus.
She called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a “criminal agency,” pointing out that federal health officials have suppressed the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin to treat COVID while pushing newer, more expensive treatments.
In a five-page order addressed to Nass, Maine’s Board of Licensure in Medicine explained why it has the authority to order a psychological examination, reported Maine Public, an affiliate of National Public Radio.
The board said that “in the interests of public health and safety,” it “may compel a physician to submit to a mental or physical examination upon a complaint or allegation that the physician is or may be unable to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to patients by reason of a mental illness, alcohol intemperance, excessive use of drugs, narcotics, or as a result of a mental or physical condition interfering with the competent practice of medicine.”
Along with her practice, Nass is a biological warfare epidemiologist who has developed a model for analyzing epidemics to assess whether they are natural or man-made. She has testified to Congress six times and to several state legislatures on bioterrorism, Gulf War syndrome and vaccine safety.
She has consulted for the World Bank, the Government Accountability Office and the U.S. Director of National Intelligence regarding the prevention, investigation and mitigation of chemical and biological warfare and pandemics.
In a response on her blog, Nass said the board is attempting to abridge her constitutional rights.
This post originally appeared on WND News Center.
