Naturally, Florida Refuses to Preorder Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine
Florida has chosen not to preorder pediatric doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Governor Ron "Florida Man" DeSantis says doctors, clinics, and hospitals can just fend for themselves without getting the state involved.
That's interesting, because every other state besides Florida has decided that they should not fend for themselves and have preordered the vaccines. Every other state.
"To do an emergency use for a 6-month-old or a 1-year-old simply to placate anxiety, that's not the standard when you're doing this," said DeSantis, the pediatric medicine expert. He's right. It's to placate anxiety resulting from the needless death of a child. Over 900 of them have done so in the pandemic to date.
DeSantis's sycophant state Surgeon General Joseph Lapado agreed: "From what I've seen, there is just insufficient data to inform benefits and risks in children." It's a pretty safe bet that what he's seen comes from anti-vaxxer web sites.
See, DeSantis and Lapado are the smartest guys in the room. They know better than not one but two scientific review panels of FDA and CDC experts.
The panels have spent weeks reviewing all the research on whether pediatric vaccines are a good idea. But why listen to them when you can just go with the casual opinions of the Dynamic Duo here?
As for letting medical entities fend for themselves, a government source quoted in the Miami Herald said: “Without Florida ordering vaccines, pediatricians and children’s hospitals will initially be without vaccines, and Florida kids will be severely limited in their ability to get vaccinated.” Now that's some good governance!
