| 9/21/2021 |
Clark County Board of Commissioners
| Approved
Agenda note: DISCUSSION: Following introduction of the item, Commissioner Jones advised that the United States Surgeon General issued a report entitled Confronting Health Misinformation, which reported that misinformation led people to decline the vaccination, reject public health measures, use treatments not proven effective, and led to violence against health workers, airline staff, and other front line workers; the Board also consulted with additional health professionals from the Health District and University Medical Center (UMC); Mason VanHouweling, Chief Executive Officer of UMC, advised that approximately 95 to 96 percent of patients with COVID-19 at UMC were not vaccinated; and requested that the Board support the adoption of the resolution.
Discussion followed regarding topics including the public’s concerns with freedom and speech being restricted; if passed, the resolution stated the Board’s position and would not enact punishments for actions or speech of differing viewpoints; misinformation exists on all sides; the issues divided communities; how to define misinformation; no further actions were planned following the adoption of the resolution; and the resolution was not intended to restrict free speech. | Pass |
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