Editor’s note: Dr. Renata Moon is a local Hayden resident and was a practicing pediatrician during the COVID-19 disruption.
By Zachary Stieber of The Epoch Times
A pediatrician who was fired for raising the alarm on COVID-19 vaccines during an event held by a U.S. senator is now facing an investigation by a state medical board, which says she may have engaged in unprofessional conduct.
The pediatrician, Dr. Renata Moon, testified in December 2022 in Washington DC at an event put on by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis). She said she saw a jump in cases of heart inflammation after the COVID-19 vaccines were released, noted that COVID-19 poses little risk to children, and highlighted how the insert for the vaccines is blank.
Washington State University, one of Dr. Moon’s employers, said her testimony may have breached ethics law and spread misinformation. It effectively terminated her.
The school also flagged Dr. Moon’s testimony with the Washington Medical Commission (WMC), which licenses doctors in Washington state, according to documents reviewed by The Epoch Times.
Dr. Moon “engaged in activities that could be perceived as possible spread of misinformation” at the Washington DC event, Dr. Jeff Haney, chair of the university’s Department of Medical Education and Clinical Sciences, told the commission.
Dr. Moon’s testimony about heart inflammation and children having “essentially a zero percent risk of harm” from COVID-19 was “potential misinformation,” Dr. Haney claimed.
The WMC looked into the allegations, and a panel of commissioners authorized an investigation because Dr. Moon may have acted unprofessionally.
Adam Calica, chief investigator for the WMC, sent a list of 22 questions, including requests for evidence to back up points made in the doctor’s testimony. For instance, he asked for data to support the statement that children had little risk from COVID-19.
“Please be advised this is a preliminary investigation only, and no charges have been issued,” Mr. Calica said.
Dr. Moon retained lawyers with the Silent Majority Foundation to formally respond to the questions. The lawyers said the probe “is frivolous and based on unsound policy” because it is based on a letter that contained no allegations regarding Dr. Moon’s practice of medicine.
“To threaten a medical professional for stating disagreements and for gathering with other professionals invited to testify to a United States senator is an infringement on the individual’s rights protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and the Washington Constitution,” the lawyers said.
They threatened to sue any commissioners and staff members involved in opening the investigation for violations of a federal law that enables people to sue state government workers for acting “under color of state law” when violating civil rights.
The WMC has not responded to requests for comment.
Dr. Moon, who chose not to renew her license in Washington state in 2023 due to concerns about being investigated but has active licenses in other states, said she’s being persecuted by a weaponized agency.
“Pharmaceutical companies have NO liability for the vaccines that they create, and now physicians are kept from speaking about the dangers that they are seeing firsthand,” Dr. Moon told The Epoch Times via email. “How can any medical professional report a safety concern or openly debate the risks/benefits of a medical product?”
Much of what the WMC asked for is information commonly known by now to the public, including how COVID-19 poses little risk to children.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data presented at the hearing, for instance, showed that just 0.01 percent of infections among children and 0.05 percent of infections among adults aged 18 to 29 led to death.
“When you have such low or nonexistent mortality in these low age groups, the potential severe adverse effects of the vaccine will surmount the nonexistent mortality of these age groups,” Dr. Harvey Risch, a professor emeritus of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, said during the 2022 hearing.
The commission also asked for the package insert Dr. Moon displayed, even though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has acknowledged that the inserts shipped with the vaccines are blank.
Some other questions dealt with Dr. Moon’s experience. The WMC asked for evidence on her statement that she has seen, or has direct knowledge of, more patients with myocarditis after vaccination when compared to before the pandemic.
Dr. Moon said in her formal response that the WMC “may conduct its own research on this issue and cannot hold me accountable for its lack of information or expertise.” She also cited studies such as one showing how few children have died with COVID-19. She declined to answer some questions, asserting they had “nothing to do with the practice of medicine.”
“Initiating this investigation appears intended to intimidate and harass a physician acting in support of her Hippocratic Oath to ‘do no harm’ and her obligation to speak about valid safety concerns,” Dr. Moon told the WMC.
She said that she raised concerns due to concerning safety data for the Pfizer and Moderna modified messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccines, particularly in light of how children were pushed to receive the vaccines even though they face little risk from COVID-19.
“I spoke to my government in Washington, D.C., about my legitimate concerns regarding the administration of these COVID-19 mRNA genetic shots to our nation’s children,” Dr. Moon said. “This WMC investigation of my free speech is a direct violation of my civil liberties and Constitutional rights.”
