Oprah Winfrey has offered an all-expenses-paid vacation to an emergency room doctor in Arizona who claimed that he was fired from his job after revealing the severity of the coronavirus pandemic in the state.
Dr Cleavon Gilman, an ER doctor in Yuma, has been tweeting since November about the state’s Covid response and hospital bed shortages.
Dr Gilman said that his messages led Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC), where he works via a contracting firm, to fire him. “We should be taking care of those taking care of us,” Oprah tweeted on Friday. “You’ll need a vacation once this pandemic is over—and I’ll gladly send you and your immediate family anywhere you want to go.