Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 21, 2023

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DeSantis Recommends Against Boosters as Florida Tops U.S. for COVID Hospitalizations
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/desantis-administration-recommends-against-boosters-right-as-florida-tops-nation-for-covid-hospitalizations

* DeSantis’ presidential campaign plays up his handling of pandemic as bucking liberal orthodoxy for the good of FL
* championed faster reopenings
* appointed vaccine skeptic Dr. Joseph Lapado FL surgeon general

#DeSantis #Lapado #antivaxx #disinformation #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #CDC #PublicHealth #Florida #GOP #GOPmenace #EvidenceBasedMedicine #EBM #populism #neofascism

DeSantis administration recommends against boosters, right as Florida tops nation for Covid hospitalizations

The governor's presidential campaign has played up his handling of the pandemic.

Mother Jones
DrBob, 🧠 MechanicApr 25, 2023

Nothing like fudging the results (when they don’t meet your political biases!) Pathetic, should have medical license revoked!

#covid #vaccine #vaccines #DeSantis #Lapado @politico
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/24/florida-surgeon-general-covid-vaccine-00093510

Florida surgeon general altered key findings in study on Covid-19 vaccine safety

Joseph Ladapo defended the move, saying revisions are a normal part of assessing such analysis.

POLITICO
TracingVRL by A.J. FishJan 5, 2023
Sharp conflict at University of Florida over state surgeon general's low-integrity research: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/01/04/ladapo-surgoen-general-university-florida/
"Although the school declined to review Ladapo’s actions, the task force argues that Ladapo should be held to the standards of a university professor at all times, including in his role as a public servant." #COVID #Florida #Lapado #DeSantis
Fla. surgeon general used ‘flawed’ vaccine science, faculty peers say

Joseph A. Ladapo may have violated University of Florida research integrity rules, a faculty task force said. But the university says it has no plans to investigate the matter.

The Washington Post
Cottage PoliticsJan 4, 2023

Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, a professor of medicine at the University of Florida, used a faulty analysis and may have violated the school’s research integrity rules by citing a non-peer-reviewed study when he warned young men against receiving common coronavirus vaccines.
#Florida #Covid #Lapado

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/579031-joseph-ladapo-used-seriously-flawed-science-to-warn-against-vaccines-uf-faculty-peers-say/

Joseph Ladapo used ‘seriously flawed’ science to warn against vaccines, UF faculty peers say

A UF task force determined that the information Ladapo used to warn against vaccines has ‘serious shortcomings’ of which he was made aware.

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