Parallel pandemics have bedeviled the United States since the first cases of COVID-19 were recognized. As cases and deaths surged, so did the misinformation, and those false statements gained credibility when they came from physicians.

The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) issued a statement Aug. 26, 2021, to counter that, warning physicians it certified that spreading misinformation violated ABEM’s Code of Professionalism that requires physicians to “refrain from conduct the Board determines, in its sole judgment, to be sufficiently egregious that it is inconsistent with the ethical behavior by a physician.”

ABEM posted its newly developed Code of Professionalism in April 2021.

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