Florida's new COVID booster guidance is straight-up misinformation

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

In what has become a pattern of spreading vaccine misinformation, the Florida health department is telling older Floridians and others at highest risk from COVID-19 to avoid most booster shots, saying they are potentially dangerous.

Clinicians and scientists denounced the message as politically fueled scaremongering that also weakens efforts to protect against diseases like measles and whooping cough.

A prominent Florida doctor expressed dismay that medical leaders in the state, leery of angering Gov. Ron DeSantis, have been slow to counter anti-vaccine messages from Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, including the latest COVID bulletin. Ladapo is a DeSantis appointee and the top official at the state health department.

The bulletin makes a number of false or unproven claims about the efficacy and safety of mRNA-based COVID vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna, including that they could threaten "the integrity of the human genome." Florida's guidance generally regurgitates ideas from anti-vaccine websites, said John Moore, a professor of microbiology at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-new-covid-booster-guidance-misinformation-ladapo/

[moonshinegnomie]

1. he should lose his license to practice medice

any medical group hes affiliated with should also boot his ass

[Grins]

9. And the question is "Why hasn't he?

And why hasn't Florida's certifying medical board gone after him for malpractice?

[IronLionZion]

2. They might have fewer GOP voters by election day

Because one thing Florida has a lot of are "older Floridians and others at highest risk from COVID-19".

[SpankMe]

17. Thus, this is sort of Darwinesque

Conservatives are the bulk of anti-vaxxers these days. (It used to be extreme liberals. But, it's flipped.)

So, larger proportions of them will not get vaxxed. Larger proportions will die.

Larger proportions will get severe illness and overwhelm the health system, which will drive health care workers out of the business due to stress and overwork. So, fewer health care workers and fewer hospital beds to treat seniors (overwhelmingly conservative) which will result in even more death and incapacitation of conservatives.

Fewer conservative voters. Fewer Republican votes.

I know this is an evil thing to say. But, should we be looking a gift horse in the mouth? Let nature take its course.

[surfered]

3. This should be a Darwin Award Nominee. Additionally, my understanding is that it is not a booster, but a new vaccine.

[IronLionZion]

7. The virus mutates and forms new strains

so each year they develop updated vaccines similar to annual flu vaccines.

[groundloop]

8. Exactly. I've managed to have Covid twice despite being totally up to date on vaccinations.......

It certainly wasn't pleasant, but at least I didn't develop any severe symptoms and I have no doubt that being vaccinated kept me out of the hospital. I'll be getting the latest Covid shot very soon, alongside the latest flu shot.

[IronLionZion]

12. Same, I had COVID last year and it was pretty mild. I'm up to date including this month.

and I've had coworkers have a harder time with it if they hadn't kept up to date beyond the initial shots.

[louis-t]

18. I know someont that only got the first shot, has now had COVID

3 times. Every time she gets an ache, she blames it on the vaccine. Of course, you know who she supports (worships).

[louis-t]

19. I heard of a woman who went to get her flu shot, which she got every year

and became convinced that the doctor was going to give her a COVID vaccine instead and fled the office.

[Freethinker65]

4. What does DeSantis gain from overwhelming the Florida hospital system with unnecessary COVID patients?

Does he get a kickback/ER visit?

[TommieMommy]

5. What the heck is wrong with these stupid ass people

Why are they doing this 😡 I don't understand why they want people to get sick. Makes no sense. I'm getting my flu and covid vaccines in a few weeks. I don't trust or listen to DeSantis and his gang.

[snowybirdie]

6. Na, na na na nah

Got mine anyway, Death Santis!

[Talitha]

14. We're proud of you, snowybirdie!

[riversedge]

10. The drug vaccine companies should sue Gov DeSantis.

[bluestarone]

11. EXACTLY!!

Wou;ld love to see this!

[GB_RN]

13. It Actually Might Be Possible...

For a defamation case against him and/or the Fl. Surgeon General: Badmouthing the vaccines, KNOWING it’s bullshit (DeathSentence was originally in favor of them, and didn’t “switch sides” until later). Also, lost sales would be easy to prove, so the pharmaceutical companies would have met all conditions for suing them.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. Republicans have become the party of death.

[Martin68]

16. One can only hope it is MAGAts who fall for bad Covid advice.

[Intractable]

20. Fortunately, he hasn't actually prevented us from getting the boosters.

I'm in Southern FL. I got mine two weeks ago.

[GP6971]

22. Hello again. Bye