Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the state’s next surgeon general, one who aligns with the governor’s beliefs that vaccine mandates and other precautionary COVID-19 measures are unnecessary.
DeSantis named Joseph Ladapo, MD, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and a health policy researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles, as both the surgeon general and the secretary of the Florida Department of Health, accordingLadapo said he’ll take a broad public health approach in his roles and “reject fear” during the“Florida will completely reject fear as a way of making policies in public health. So, we’re done with fear.
When asked if Florida should promote vaccines, Ladapo said the state should promote “good health” and that“It’s been treated almost like a religion, and that’s just senseless,” he said. “We support measures for good health -- vaccinations, losing weight,
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