When Doctors Parrot Policy
From a letter by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1977:
The most essential point (to put it differently):
The doctor's opinion is decisive -- according to Judaic law -- when he speaks as a doctor (based on medical factors or life-saving measures).
If, however, he states his opinion as a state official or politician (based on political considerations), that according to his opinion, they (i.e. those political considerations) outweigh and eclipse the medical factors -- this is the opposite of the ruling of the Code of Jewish Law.
This, my friends, is the crux of the covid issue.
Doctors who endorse the covid vaccine are not experts in vaccine safety or toxicology, but are merely parroting the "public health policy" determined by state officials. Consequently, they are communicating their opinion based on POLICY, i.e. political considerations, not on actual science.
Their opinion is irrelevant from a Judaic standpoint.