Push to Expand Doctors’ Legal Immunity for Virus Draws Ire (1)

Doctors reopening practices following the Covid-19 slowdown are facing pent-up demand for elective procedures that were largely halted by states when the pandemic took off.

As physicians start to greenlight the joint replacements, heart procedures, and non-emergency surgeries that were postponed months earlier, the nation’s largest association of medical providers is pushing to make sure doctors aren’t held liable for any ill effects from the delayed care.

The American Medical Association wants states to grant doctors civil immunity from harm resulting from medical care that wasn’t rendered due to federal, state, or local directives to cancel, delay, or deny non-urgent ...