Outspoken Ontario Physician Against COVID Vaccination Has License Suspended

Dr. Chris Shoemaker, who was suspended by his college on Jan. 5, 2023. Courtesy of Dr. Chris Shoemaker

A physician who has taken a publicly critical stance to pandemic measures such as COVID-19 vaccination was suspended by his college on Jan. 5.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) suspended Dr. Chris Shoemaker through an interim order under the Regulated Health Professions Act.

Under the act and its Health Professions Procedural Code, the college can impose an interim suspension on a physician if it is “of the opinion the conduct of the member exposes or is likely to expose the member’s patients to harm or injury.”

CPSO spokesperson Shae Greenfield told The Epoch Times the CPSO is prohibited from disclosing details about what led to the suspension and that the information could emerge later if Dr. Shoemaker appeals the suspension to the provincial court, a decision he hasn’t made yet.

Shoemaker said in an interview that the complaint did not come from a patient or a third-party member of the public, but was rather put together by the CPSO itself and is over 500 pages long.

“The entire document is the CPSO’s interpretation of their dislike that I am choosing to speak on this topic for the public good,” he said.

“No human, no individual citizen of Ontario has placed a complaint against my activities and functionalities as a doctor.”

Dr. Shoemaker says the complaint relates to his advocacy and public speeches in which he criticizes different angles of the pandemic management and that it doesn’t relate to any medical advice he would have provided directly to patients.

He says he stopped seeing patients of his own volition in February 2022, wanting to concentrate on his advocacy.

The physician with 45 years of practice has been vocal about the authorities’ suppression of drugs like Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 and about the harms he says vaccination is causing.

“These are life shortening injections,” Shoemaker told a crowd in Toronto last October.

“Everyone who gets shot, after shot, after shot, of these COVID shots is shortening their life with each and [every] injection. Some people die within two weeks, three weeks, they have a rapid internal event that ends their life extremely quickly.”

He said taking repeated injections provokes immune deficiency to fight off the SARS-CoV-2 virus and other illnesses and can lead to heart damage such as myocarditis leading to death.

Recent studies have suggested a correlation between increased doses and infection risks. A study based on autopsies looking at people dying “unexpectedly” also found in some cases that vaccination with mRNA technology was the likely cause of myocarditis leading to sudden death.

Health Canada’s online information on COVID-19 vaccines does not say that they can prevent infection, but that they “continue to be very effective at protecting against severe illness, hospitalization and death from COVID-19.”

While acknowledging the potential side effects, its says that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks of the disease.

Health Canada recognizes myocarditis as a side effect, with a higher prevalence in young people, but says it is rare and can be resolved quickly after seeking medical care in the majority of cases.

However physicians like Dr. Shoemaker and others like British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra indicate the damage caused to heart tissues can be persistent and lead to problems down the road.

‘Personal Experience’

Dr. Shoemaker’s discourse repeats common themes from the medical community calling for the COVID-19 shots to be removed from the market, and some is grounded in professional experience.

“I certainly saw many patients who were returning after vaccinations in the 2021 period, who had strokes and who had had heart attacks in weeks and months after their vaccines,” Shoemaker says, noting he was working as an emergency-type doctor in COVID care clinics in Ottawa.

“They were literally physically destroyed by what they received, they had the bad luck to be badly affected by the vaccine. So yes, I had personal experience of seeing people who were vaccine damaged.”

Shoemaker says he treated COVID patients for 18 months while unvaccinated and never caught the disease, but he eventually succumbed to the “psychological pressure” when vaccine passports were needed to attend hockey games or enter restaurants.

It’s after receiving his second dose in December 2021 that he finally caught COVID he says, which he attributed to his immune system being “dragged down.”

That time period also saw the arrival of the Omicron variant in Canada, which spread like wildfire and infected a high number of individuals, vaccinated or not.

DARPA

It was not that event that changed his mind about the utility of vaccination, but rather coming across information released by investigative outfit Project Veritas in January 2022.

Project Veritas obtained documents from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) about a 2018 grant application from the EcoHealth Alliance to conduct research on bat coronaviruses in China.

DARPA rejected the proposal on the grounds it involved dangerous gain-of-function research to make viruses more potent and “dual use research of concern,” meaning it could be used for nefarious purposes.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) ended up financing the EcoHealth program, but it denied the research produced the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Project Veritas had also released a report written by U.S. Marine Major Joe Murphy who had done a fellowship at DARPA and analyzed the 2018 EcoHealth Alliance documents.

He came to the conclusion that SARS-CoV-2 was created by an EcoHealth Alliance program at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“The DOD rejected the [EcoHealth] program proposal because vaccines would be ineffective and because the spike proteins being inserted into the variants were deemed too dangerous (gain-of-function),” he wrote in an email related to his findings.

The “DOD now mandates vaccines that copy the spike protein previously deemed too dangerous,” he added.

Ivermectin

Major Murphy had also indicated in his report that the drug Ivermectin “works throughout all phases of [the COVID-19] illness because it both inhibits viral replication and modulates the immune response.”

Dr. Shoemaker says the information released indicates that the U.S. government knew Ivermectin was the “gold standard medication” and “that a vaccine against the COVID virus can never work ... All it will do is create subtypes that are more lethal or more problematic, and it will do nothing to actually prevent COVID.”

Colleges, governments, and media in Canada and the U.S. have worked against the use of early treatments like Ivermectin to deal with COVID-19.

Ontario Dr. Patrick Philips was banned from prescribing the drug and Manitoba Dr. Wilhelmus Petrus Grobler was censored under similar circumstances.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says that Ivermectin“has not been shown to be safe or effective” to treat or prevent COVID-19.

It went further with a tweet in August 2021 to portray it as a drug mostly used on animals and discourage people from taking it. “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it,” it wrote.

This led media outlets like CNN to emphasize the livestock use of the drug that’s been given to humans for decades.

While the FDA says Ivermectin is not approved for and should not be used to treat COVID-19, a previous review conducted by The Epoch Times has shown that half the studies it uses to back its recommendation actually support the use of the drug.

U.S. physician Dr. Pierre Kory has co-authored a meta-analysis that concludes the drug is effective against COVID-19 and he frequently prescribes it for his patients.

He told The Epoch Times that the U.S. government’s position on Ivermectin “is one of the most glaring examples of the corruption of modern evidence based medicine.”

Dr. Shoemaker says that Canadian pharmacies should be “free to dispense Ivermectin in a safe ordered dosage by physicians” to deal with COVID-19.

Zachary Stieber contributed to this report.