Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has urged Germany to end prosecutions of German doctors granting patients exemptions from mask and vaccine mandates during the pandemic.
“I’ve learned that more than a thousand German physicians and thousands of their patients now face prosecution and punishment for issuing exemptions from wearing their masks or getting COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic,” Kennedy said in a video. “When any government criminalizes doctors for advising their patients, it crosses a line that free societies have always treated as sacred.”
“The German government is now violating the sacred patient-physician relationship, replacing it with a dangerous system that makes physicians enforcers of state policies,” he added. “Your health is no longer your doctor’s priority under this system.”
Kennedy noted that doctors are instead “serving the welfare of the collective as determined by unelected technocrats with no medical training.”
In a statement accompanying the video, Kennedy explained that he “made it clear that Germany has the opportunity and the responsibility to correct this trajectory, to restore medical autonomy, to end politically motivated prosecutions, and to uphold the rights that anchor every democratic nation.”
Nina Warken, Germany’s Federal Minister of Health, asserted that criminal prosecution “only occurred in cases of fraud and forgery, such as the issuance of false vaccination passports or fake mask certificates.”
“During the Corona pandemic, there was never an obligation for the medical profession to administer vaccinations against COVID-19 to carry out,” Warken argued. “Anyone who did not want to offer vaccinations for medical, ethical or personal reasons was neither committing a criminal offense nor should sanctions be feared. There was no professional ban or fine unless vaccinated.”
