From Masks To Vaccines: How Churches Have ‘Power’ Over Public Health … Churches have been at the center of past Covid outbreaks in the state, but they aren’t subject to state restrictions aimed at preventing coronavirus spread.
In a chapel in Kihei, Maui, a service quickly pivoted from the Book of Jeremiah to an hourlong seminar with controversial medical advice about Covid-19. Pastor Kirk Milhoan said he wanted to have an open conversation about the uptick in coronavirus cases, pulling up a presentation full of graphs and charts for people to “connect the dots.”
Milhoan, who is also a pediatric cardiologist, does not require the use of masks or enforce social distancing guidelines. He also has come under fire for his advocacy of drugs that have not been approved for use in treating Covid.
“I think that we’ve got to read in between the lines on what the CDC says if they’re telling you that every vaccinated person has to wear a mask inside,” he said during a recent sermon that was posted on YouTube.
