The Florida doctor reportedly offered the medical letters for pupils in schools with mask rules.
A Florida doctor has been removed from his hospital job amid reports that he offered parents medical letters to circumvent school mask requirements.Tallahassee physician Brian Warden was reportedly advertising such medical exemption letters for $50 on a Facebook group for anti-mask parents.
Dr Warden's employer, the Capitol Regional Medical Center in Tallahassee, told the BBC that it began the process of removing him from providing services to their patients "immediately" upon learning of his actions. In one post, the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper reported, Dr Warden advertised that he could provide a letter on signed stationary.Florida has been in the national spotlight over the ongoing mask row between school officials, parents and the government.
At least eight school districts across the state have defied the governor's order, including its largest school district, Miami-Dade County, and Leon County, where Dr Warden was employed.Covid-19 cases have surged in Florida due to the contagious Delta variant, with more people admitted to hospital and dying of the virus than at any other point during the pandemic.
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