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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

Professor fired for refusing jab claims he’s organising US version of ‘Freedom Convoy’

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A doctor who was fired from a teaching position at UC Irvine for refusing to get vaccinated is reportedly trying to organise a US version of the "Freedom Convoy" coronavirus vaccine protest that will arrive in Washington DC in early March.

Dr Aaron Kheriaty, a doctor of psychiatry, appeared on right-wing media figure Dan Bongino's show and claimed he was organising a US version of the "trucker" convoy that has disrupted Canada's capital city, Ottawa, for two weeks.

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