NYC’s disgraced ex-COVID czar Dr. Jay Varma might have perjured himself by repeatedly testifying underneath oath that vaccination is the one approach to cease the unfold of coronavirus, critics stated.
Varma, who served as ex-Mayor Invoice de Blasio’s senior well being advisor throughout the coronary heart of the pandemic — and was caught in lately launched hidden-camera video boasting about attending drug-fueled intercourse events throughout the pandemic — confessed within the footage that pure immunity to the lethal virus is simply pretty much as good because the jab.
“It doesn’t make any distinction in any respect,” Varma stated in a single clip, after a girl he was chatting with claimed to know individuals who wouldn’t have intercourse with unvaccinated companions.
“All people’s been uncovered to the virus. Whether or not you’re uncovered to the virus as a result of it’s breathed on you or since you obtained injected into you. It’s the identical immune response.”
Nonetheless, whereas testifying on town’s behalf in a number of lawsuits from companies and ex-city workers opposing COVID mandates, Varma sang completely different tunes.
“The COVID-19 vaccine has been proven to supply these individuals with a previous COVID-19 an infection higher safety in opposition to reinfection,” stated Varma in a sworn October 2021 affidavit.
Councilwoman Joann (R-Queens) accused Varma of perjuring himself — and within the course of purposely spreading misinformation to push vaccination mandates that finally put many New Yorkers out of labor.
“Dr. Varma swore underneath oath that the vaccine was the best approach to forestall the unfold of latest COVID strains, however in captured footage he privately acknowledges that there was, in actuality, no distinction between vaccinations and pure immunity,” stated Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens)
“That is outright perjury . . . perjury that price hundreds their livelihoods – and he should be held accountable for his actions.”
Varma couldn’t be reached for remark, however in a earlier assertion stated the footage launched by podcaster Steven Crowder as “spliced, diced, and brought out of context.”
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