New Florida Surgeon General Spreads COVID-19 Misinformation

UCLA health policy researcher and physician 

Governor Ron "Florida Man" DeSantis has appointed a new surgeon general, Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo. He came from California where he was a UCLA health policy researcher and physician.

Dr. Lapado is right there with his boss in terms of questioning the effectiveness of vaccines and the value of mandates and other mitigation measures. He complained that people are "being forced to, you know, to sort of put something in their bodies that we don't know all there is to know about yet, no matter what people on TV tell you." 

That's a variation of the "I need more time to see if it's safe" excuse routinely used by anti-vaxxers. Can you blame them for having doubts? The vaccines have only been proven safe and effective 6.82 billion times so far.

He also questions whether the vaccines work. "So sure they reduce the likelihood of transmission, and even that is sort of questionable depending on how far out you go, but they're not preventing it." Um, actually nobody other than COVIDiots question whether vaccines prevent the disease. Clinical trials—those are actual scientific studies—show that they are north of 90% effective, immediately after inoculation. They are not perfect, but nothing is.

He also says mandates don't work: "In fact the science says something that is completely opposite." Of course he doesn't say what "the science" is. That's probably because there hasn't been time for "the science" to develop on this question. Meanwhile there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that the mandates work great.

When is the medical establishment is going to start cracking down on quacks like this guy? A lot of people have been asking the same question.



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