An optometrist in British Columbia refused to treat two young children with serious eye conditions because they hadn’t been vaccinated for COVID-19, a decision that appears to go against the position of the province’s college of physicians. Two B.C. mothers—Laura Ziemer and Sandra Scrimes—said they were devastated on Jan. 13 when the office of Dr. Ross Kennedy asked to see their children’s vaccination status just days before their appointments that had been booked months before. “In light of the rising Omicron cases, we are only able to see vaccinated patients in clinic during this time,” read an email from West Coast Vision in Surrey, B.C., that Ziemer shared with The Epoch Times. Both mothers said they were left scrambling to find new ophthalmologists for their children, as Scrimes said it was critical for her son to see a specialist because he was losing his vision. They say their goal now is to …
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