he posted, most who took covid vaccines will be dead by 2025. but his biggest whopper is the overarching conspiracy theory that covid was a planned operation which was politically motivated as part of a secret global plot to depopulate the earth. you believe the pandemic was planned? i do. okay. i do. but you don t know. i have no idea. and you don t know why? well, i suspect that there s the research that s coming now that would indicate that it s probably something to reduce the population or or minimize reproduction rates. reporter: it would be laughable if it wasn t so dangerous. he compares covid and the vaccine to world war ii and dr. anthony fauci to adolf hitler. fauci is a criminal. you talk about hitler. okay. well whoever dr. fauci is in your mind, he is a government
dr. rashid buttar repeatedly lies and disinforms on matters of public health. yet, that doesn t have an impact on his medical license held in north carolina. across the country, covid-19 has created a subculture of disinformation among medical outcasts. state medical boards don t know what to do. those kinds of comments are very troubling to doctors who are on the front lines and managing covid. they are particularly frustrating. in fact, some of my colleagues are livid. cnn contacted medical boards in all 50 states. half of them responded. only two, rhode island and oregon, said they had actually disciplined doctors for coronavirus misinformation or related violations. that is despite hundreds of complaints. the federation of state medical boards issued a warning to physicians who generate and spread covid-19 vaccine misinformation or disinformation. that they are risking disciplinary action, including the suspension or revocation of
indisputable facts, he doubles down on his belief that lifesaving vaccines are more dangerous than the virus itself. people don t die from covid. you have her already seen the data. so why are we getting a vaccine that causes more deaths than the problem, itself? 6.34 billion doses of this vaccine have been given. if you are right, people would be dropping dead all around us. it s not orchestrated to do that. it s not orchestrated to do that? each vaccine has been geared up. so you can look at the ingredients of the vaccines themselves. it is a all been published. complete the sentence. each vaccine has been geared up for what? each vaccine is designed it appears to be different. i don t know the details because i am not a vaccine developer. scientific corruption. reporter: because of his disinformation, battar has been removed from facebook and instagram but he is still going strong on twitter, telegram, and his own website all filled with falsehoods. on septembe
sources tell cnn the u.s. food and drug administration is planning on allowing americans to receive a different coronavirus vaccine for their booster shots than their original dose. this comes after the nih presented research last week showing it was safe to mix boosters and mixing and matching actually revved up immune response. also tonight, we have new data about vaccinations. accordings to the cdc, 57.1% of the u.s. population is vaccinated. that is about 189 million people. 22.8% or about 65 million people of the eligible population are not vaccinated. and 35 states have vaccinated more than one half half of their residents. meanwhile, all across the country, high-profile doctors, physicians who went to medical school, are persuading people not to get the covid vaccine. to ignore health measures like wearing masks. you are about to hear exclusively from one doctor who makes frightening statements about covid and the vaccine that are wrong. but we think it s important for the publi
said it could be this but i can tell you that dr. fauci is not an innocent bystander. he is very well aware of what he is doing. and the extent of it and his involvement, i don t know. i am not privy to that information. reporter: as atrocious as the doctor s fake conclusions and conspiracy theories are, he is just one of the doctors spreading dangerous covid disinformation to millions of people across social media. according to the center for countering digital hate. let s be absolutely clear. lies cost lives in a pandemic. if you are encouraging people not to vaccinate, you will cause people to lose their lives. battar is encouraging people to distrust lifesaving vaccines. and like other disinformers, he is using false, twisted information and unproven conspiracies to do it. do you think the covid vaccine works? i think that the covid vaccine is very effective at what it was designed for, perhaps. but it s not preventing death, certainly not. it s not preventing death? no