Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo publicly opposed measures — including masks and vaccinations — to protect people from being infected by a new variant of COVID-19 during a news conference in Jacksonville, Florida, reports The Associated Press:
“People are lurching toward this insanity again,” DeSantis said. “As we see these things being orchestrated … there needs to be pushback.”
Lapado said there were no arguments for getting the latest vaccine.
“There are a lot of red flags,” Ladapo said.
Ladapo’s previous warnings against COVID-19 vaccines merited a public letter from federal health agencies saying his claims were harmful to the public…
“It is the job of public health officials around the country to protect the lives of the populations they serve, particularly the vulnerable. Fueling vaccine hesitancy undermines this effort,” said the letter signed by FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and then-CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.
(Sources: The Associated Press via Yahoo!, Image Credit: CNN)