Posted: Jan 11, 2021 5:13 PM ET | Last Updated: January 13
Canadian nurses Kristen Nagle and Sarah Choujounian, first and second from left, with other members of Global Frontline Nurses in a photo from January 2021 posted to Choujounian's Instagram account. The organization has made unsubstantiated claims about the pandemic, including that hospitals are committing fraud by misreporting cases of the virus and needlessly placing patients on ventilators in order to profit off the crisis. Nagle and Choujounian attended an event organized by the group last week in Washington, D.C.(Sarah Choujounian/Instagram)
Ontario's nursing regulator says it is investigating two nurses who travelled to Washington, D.C., last week to attend a rally by a group of their peers that has made unsubstantiated, conspiratorial claims about "COVID fraud" and hospitals' alleged role in misrepresenting the coronavirus pandemic.