Some say yes:
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/958434
Others not so sure:
(Written in response to above statement, submitted by MD to Medscape.com)
It is hard for me to understand the “ethics” being espoused by this “ethicist” as well the physician who wants to refuse to see patients and cloaks it in virtue signaling. It is easy to understand how pumped up fear can be directed in a biased and bigoted way–it happens all the time. But the science about this decision as presented is all wrong. Because this is a leaky vaccine that does not produce sterilizing immunity, the vaccinated continue to harbor the virus in their upper airways and can infect others. This is incontrovertible: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02187-1 So the doctor who thinks he is protecting himself, his staff and his patients by refusing to see the unvaccinated is just ill-informed. But this is probably not his fault as part of the problem is the complete destruction of a robust medical education. If he wants to be scientifically consistent, he should give every prospective patient a rapid COVID test in an anteroom as many of his “vaccinated” would be positive. Then, at least when he discriminates against them he would have some sort of “valid” reason.
But this misses the points this case expose: 1) science died in 2020. This is not about science at all but about “faith”. It has become a religious war based on faith and it only matters in whom and in what you place your faith. Logic will not prevail. To many, faith in Fauci is all that matters. NIH grants showing his signature on gain of function in Wuhan make absolutely no difference. 2) Keyed into this is the complete loss of credibility of the medical “experts”. It will take decades to restore. 3) ditto with formerly respected medical journals. Everything is spin and political propaganda now. 4) HIPAA and the hypocrisy around it will never be enforceable again. We see that the wrong politics can completely cancel any “rights” we so piously intoned belonged to patients.
Perhaps the thing that I find the most reprehensible is that most of those same individuals who intone their right to discriminate agains the unvaccinated (even those with robust REAL immunity from having recovered from COVID) also feel it is perfectly fine, and indeed virtuous, to deny informed consent regarding the early treatment of individuals, even those “good people” who are vaccinated, with effective, safe and cheap drugs we already have, purely because Fauci refuses to accept the data, including RCT’s. Accepting the “science” would require questioning why Uttar Pradesh eradicated COVID using ivermectin if it was worthless. But, as I said, this is not a scientific or medical controversy now. It is religious, and the heretics must be destroyed.
I am sick of these self-righteous bigots who have let so many people die because of their strange, unscientific beliefs that they insist the rest of us live by. Maybe someday this will be put behind us, but the lessons must never be forgotten. Perhaps if we paid attention to this: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/whitewashing-aids-history_b_4762295 we could have avoided this mess. Maybe this ancient history (from 1987) should be the subject that medical ethicists examine and teach to today’s professionals.
