Florida surgeon general defies science amid measles outbreak
Florida surgeon general defies science amid measles outbreak
Florida surgeon general Joseph A. Ladapo failed to urge parents to vaccinate their children or keep unvaccinated students home from school as a precaution in a letter to parents at the Fort Lauderdale-area school this week following six confirmed measles cases.
PSA: if you have anti-vaxx friends and family, but you think they might be open to being wrong, remind them that measles wipes out your immune system and its memory.
So all that "natural immunity" they love to go on about? Gone.
Let these MAGA/Trumper retards kill themselves off. It's Darwinian karma at its peak.
There is something pure evil about Republicans waving the pro-life flag, only to kill those same children with measles.
So, fire him? This is a fairly unambiguous failure to meet the requirements of your role
You misunderstand, he was hired specifically for this behavior by Governor Fuckbucket who wanted a surgeon general that would oppose the Covid vaccines. This is him doing the exact same thing that got him the job in the first place.
He was hired by DeSantis precisely because of his willingness to ignore scientific evidence.
He is DeSantis' appointee and double dips in state salary. He won't go until DeSantis goes.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Last month, he called for halting the use of mRNA coronavirus vaccines, in a move decried by the public health community.
In a measles outbreak in Ohio that began in late 2022, most of the 85 children infected were old enough to get the shots, but their parents chose not to do so, officials said.
The state legislature in 2021 had stripped health officials’ abilities to order someone suspected of having an infectious disease to quarantine.
Ladapo’s letter to parents comes at a time of heightened worry about the public health consequences of anti-vaccine sentiment, a long-standing problem that has led to drops in child immunization rates in pockets across the United States.
The outbreak will explode exponentially, becoming a much bigger community threat, if unvaccinated people exposed to the virus don’t follow public health recommendations and stay home from school during the potentially contagious period, said Patsy Stinchfield, president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and a nurse practitioner in Minneapolis.
The first case was reported Friday in a third-grade child who had no history of travel abroad, Florida health officials said.
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I guess this is the '"find out" phase of the anti-vax movement?