Florida health official put on 2-month leave after urging staff to get vaccine

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Florida is allowing its top public health official in Orlando to return to work after a two-month suspension related to an email he sent to his staff noting their abysmal COVID-19 vaccination rate and urging them to get vaccinated.

Dr. Raul Pino, the health administrator for Florida's Orange County, sent the email to public health employees on January 4 as the state was seeing a surge of COVID-19 cases amid the omicron wave of the pandemic. The email noted that less than half of the 568 employees at the county's public health office were fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Only 77 of them had gotten a booster shot, Pino added. He called the staff's vaccination rate "pathetic" and wrote that it was "irresponsible" not to be vaccinated at that point.

“I have a hard time understanding how we can be in public health and not practice it,” he wrote, according to Click Orlando.
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The move was just the latest by Florida's government to undermine the efforts of public health experts and officials during the pandemic. While Pino was on leave, Florida confirmed Dr. Joseph Ladapo to be the state’s surgeon general. Ladapo has espoused anti-vaccine views, opposed mask-wearing, downplayed COVID-19, and promoted unproven and ineffective COVID-19 treatments. In his latest stunt, Ladapo announced that Florida is recommending against healthy children being vaccinated for COVID-19.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/florida-health-official-put-on-2-month-leave-after-urging-staff-to-get-vaccine/

Now who is practicing "cancel culture"?

[Botany]

1. The question EVERBODY needs to ask DeSantis is why does he want C-19 to spread?

n/t

[ck4829]

2. So Ron DeSantis is just a giant virus wearing a human suit?

"Time for a change in philosophy. Let's see some pathogen-friendly public policies put in place."

[Turbineguy]

3. Republican Public Health

"Die quickly"

[Blues Heron]

4. truly bizarro world down there

down is up

[SoCalDavidS]

5. FL Is Obviously Fine With Shit Like This, Because They Keep Re-Electing The Same Assholes nt

[lagomorph777]

6. This is so fucking crazy. Killing off their own supporters; enforcing the genocide with naked power

[CTyankee]

7. The state of Florida has lost its mind, just like Texas did.

This is probably the end game of Trumpism. It will not go well for the state.

[Demovictory9]

8. Kick