#Joseph Ladapo

[odinsblog]

“Pro-life” my ass.

Measles is nothing to play around with. It’s highly contagious and the effects are devastating — it’s especially dangerous to the very young, the old, the sick + immunocompromised, and those who are pregnant. But the same kind of mean, selfish, idiotic antivaxxers who don’t even want their dogs vaccinated against rabies are running the show in Florida. Hopefully someone will find a way to sue DeSantis and Ladapo for personal damages, because high dollar lawsuits are the only thing these Republican death cultists seem to understand.

#politics #florida #antivaxxers #republicans #ron desantis #joseph ladapo #measles #covidiots #floriduh #measles outbreaks #manatee bay elementary school #anti maskers #the gop is a death cult

[il-ciuchino]

Florida: chirurgo generale chiede sospensione vaccini a mRNA

Joseph Ladapo, chirurgo generale della Florida, ha chiesto che vengano sospesi i vaccini a mRNA in quanto, secondo lui, contaminerebbero i DNA dei pazienti. Ladapo, da tempo, è andato contro i sieri affermando mesi fa che avrebbero portato anche alla morte.

#Florida #vaccini #Joseph Ladapo #DNA #mRNA #covid

[factcheckdotorg]

#fact check #joseph ladapo #florida #covid 19 vaccine #mrna vaccine

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has signed the “Protections of Medical Conscience Act,” a law that allows healthcare providers or payors to deny service on the basis of “a conscience-based objection,” including any ethical, moral, or religious beliefs. The bill provides no definition for what constitutes a “moral” or “ethical” belief.

The law seeks to protect health care providers and payers from the “threat of discrimination for providing conscience-based health care.” However, advocates worry it’ll be used to deny LGBTQ+ people gender-affirming care, HIV-prevention medication, and other essential and life-saving care.

The law allows any medical provider — including doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, pharmacists, mental health professionals, lab technicians, nursing home workers, and hospital administrators — as well as insurance companies and payment entities, the right to deny care on the basis of any conscientious objection. This care can include refusing to conduct research and recordkeeping or denying medical tests, diagnoses, referrals, medications, and therapy, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) notes.

The newly signed law says denial of care can’t be based on a patient’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, but it provides no protections on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Additionally, the law also allows healthcare employers to discriminate in hiring and bars medical boards from disciplining doctors for spreading misinformation, essentially forcing employers to keep workers who refuse to do their jobs, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) noted.

In a statement, the HRC said the newly signed law “creates a license to discriminate by allowing healthcare employers to discriminate in hiring, and it bars medical boards from disciplining doctors for spreading misinformation.”

Kara Gross, legislative director and senior policy counsel of the ACLU of Florida, wrote, “This bill is shocking in its breadth, vagueness, and government overreach into the private sector and regulated businesses. It goes far beyond any alleged claims of religious freedom.”

Gross notes that anyone in the medical field — including at public and private schools, colleges, and universities — could choose to deny service to someone they personally dislike. Medical workers could refuse to assist in an active medical emergency, such as helping an unwed mother to give birth. Medical office clerks could refuse to return patient calls, and pharmacists could refuse to dispense contraceptives or medications to heal sexually transmitted infections, citing their “ethical” or “moral” beliefs.

Brandon Wolf, press secretary for the LGBTQ+ organization Equality Florida, told the Pensacola News Journal, “This puts patients in harm’s way, is antithetical to the job of health care providers, and puts the most vulnerable Floridians in danger.”

“Our state should be in the business of increasing access to medical care, not giving providers and companies a sweeping carve out of nondiscrimination laws,” Wolf added. “Shame on the Governor for putting Floridians’ health at risk to score cheap, political points.”

DeSantis was joined at the signing ceremony for the new law by State Surgeon General and Department of Health Secretary Joseph Ladapo. He has spoken out against science-based federal guidelines that support gender-affirming care for transgender teens, citing debunked studies about transgender people.

In July 2020, Ladapo appeared in a viral video as part of a group called America’s Frontline Doctors. The video was organized by the Tea Party Patriots, a right-wing group backed by wealthy Republican donors.

The group in the video, which had no epidemiologists or immunologists, promoted the anti-malaria medication hydroxychloroquine as a “cure” for COVID-19, said that face masks don’t slow the virus’s spread, and that COVID-19 is less deadly than the flu — all three claims are untrue. Lapado has written numerous op-eds repeating the video’s false claims.

The video also featured Dr. Stella Immanuel, a pediatrician and religious minister who has said that “demonic seed” inserted into sleeping individuals causes endometriosis and ovarian cysts.

#us politics #news #lgbtq nation #lgbtqia+ rights #lgbtqia+ #lgbtqia+ representation #gender affirming healthcare #gender affirming care bans #gov. ron desantis #Florida #Protections of Medical Conscience Act #let them die act #American Civil Liberties Union #human rights campaign #ACLU of Florida #Kara Gross #Brandon Wolf #Equality Florida #Pensacola News Journal #Joseph Ladapo #2023 #transphobia #republican homophobia

[mudwerks]

(via Florida surgeon general fudged data for dubious COVID analysis, tipster says | Ars Technica)

Florida's health department opened and then closed an investigation into the state's polarizing surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, after a tipster claiming to have insider knowledge alleged that Ladapo "manipulated data" and committed "scientific fraud" in his final edits to what became a contentious, widely panned analysis on COVID-19 vaccine safety in young men.

“Batshit study”

The dubious analysis at the center of the controversy was posted online last October by the health department. Oddly, though, it did not list any authors or bear the health department's letterhead or other identifiers. Ladapo used the analysis as the basis for the state's concerning recommendation that males aged 18 to 39 should not receive an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine. That recommendation goes against the recommendations of all other major health organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As Ars previously reported, the analysis was roundly criticized by outside epidemiologists and other health experts, who described it as "utter rubbish," "extremely misleading," "comically bad," "seriously flawed," and "the absolute most batshit study design and analysis plan I have ever seen." Others noted that the conclusion "smells of p-hacking" and data cherry-picking.

#politics #science #health #FL leading the way towards blind ignorance #Joseph Ladapo #batshit crazy

[uboat53]

Just over the past week, we've seen MAGA Republican state legislators across the country continue to lie about gender care in order to try to pass restrictions on it [1] and it's come out that the MAGA Surgeon General of Florida personally altered a report about Covid-19 vaccines in order to make them seem more dangerous than they actually are [2].

Perhaps it's time to admit that, if you have to lie in order to achieve your preferred policies, maybe those aren't policies we should be enacting.

[1], [2]

#florida #maga #maga republicans #joseph ladapo #politics #us politics

[mylionheart2]

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo who was appointed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, personally altered and cut data from a state-driven COVID-19 vaccine safety study.

#ron desantis #desantis #governor desantis #florida surgeon general #joseph ladapo #covid #covid19 #florida #vote blue #votedemocrats #votebluetosavedemocracy

[truemedmd]

Lies My Government Told Me about the C0\/lD \/a

Lies My Government Told Me about the C0\/lD \/a<<ine by Jeffrey Dach MD Basically, everything the government told you about the C0\/lD \/a<<ine was a LIE. Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Surgeon General for the State of Florida has already announced a halt to the use of C0\/lD \/@<<ines because of safety issues with plasmid DNA contamination which may result in genome integration. This is an adulterated…

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#Janci Chunn Lindsay #Joseph Ladapo

[prevencia]

Cirujano general de Florida le dice a Tucker que es "absolutamente posible" que las inyecciones de ARNm cambien el ADN

Joseph Ladapo dice que hay una “guerra espiritual” detrás de las vacunas contra el COVID y otras respuestas a la pandemia. Es “absolutamente posible” que las vacunas de ARNm contra el COVID-19 puedan cambiar el ADN, según el Dr. Joseph Ladapo, cirujano general de Florida. El Dr. Ladapo discutió la posibilidad recientemente durante un episodio del 15 de enero en Tucker Carlson Network. Ladapo…

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#ADN #florida #Joseph Ladapo #ticker

[worldofwardcraft]

Doctor Do Little.

December 21, 2023

All is not well in the fascist paradise of Florida. This is true in general, but most especially in the health arena. Take COVID, for instance. The Sunshine State remains one of the nation's leaders in deaths from that disease, despite ongoing attempts to hide state health statistics from the public.

Which brings us to the man responsible for that: Governor Ron DeSantis's handpicked Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo (pictured above telling reporters he don't need no stinking science). An immigrant from Nigeria and a graduate of Harvard Medical School (which should be mortified), Ladapo was appointed to the position in September 2021 and was finally confirmed the following February after senate Democrats walked out in disgust when he declined to answer their questions. Recounted CNN, "Five times state Sen. Lauren Book asked Ladapo if vaccines worked against the coronavirus. Ladapo refused to say."

And no wonder. He has repeatedly insisted the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are dangerous for healthy young men and children and has warned people under the age of 65 against getting booster shots. Florida's top medical officer also told attendees at a press conference that masks "are not saving lives" and denounced doctors and health organizations like the CDC and AMA that still advocate for masking as a way to stop the spread of COVID.

Ladapo, we repeat, is a trained physician. But The Tampa Bay Times has its doubts.

Ladapo hailed ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment. Its misuse led to a spike in calls to Florida poison control centers. He's also argued for hydroxychloroquine like DeSantis and former President Trump. Others in the medical community aren't as enthusiastic about that treatment.

And it gets worse. Thanks to his pal DeSantis, Ladapo was fast-tracked for a tenured professorship at the University of Florida, where he doesn't teach and does no research or any other kind of work. However, he does receive a $262,000 salary to go along with his $250,000 Surgeon General's pay. One professor at UF's College of Medicine declared,

We keep getting all of these emails about doing more to help the [university budget's] $42 million shortfall, and then you have this guy who’s not doing anything.

Says state representative Anna Eskamani, “I really look at Dr. Ladapo as more being a political figure than a Surgeon General at this point.” Boca Raton's state senator Tina Polsky echoes those sentiments: “This guy is a charlatan, he’s not looking out for anyone’s health.” But, then, taking money for doing nothing useful seems to be Dr. Ladapo's medical specialty.

#florida man #joseph ladapo #university of florida

[factcheckdotorg]

#ron desantis #covid-19 vaccines #joseph ladapo #florida

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

U.S. health agencies have sent a letter to Florida’s surgeon general, warning him that his claims about COVID-19 vaccine risks are harmful to the public.

The letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was sent Friday to Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo. It was a response to a letter Ladapo had written the agencies last month, expressing concerns about what he described as adverse effects from mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

Ladapo was appointed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2021 and has attracted national scrutiny over his close alignment with the Governor in opposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other health policies embraced by the federal government.

Ladapo last year released guidance recommending against COVID-19 vaccinations for healthy children, contradicting federal public health leaders whose advice says all kids should get the shots.

He also has recommended against men ages 18 to 39 getting the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, claiming that an analysis by the Florida Department of Health showed an 84% increase in cardiac-related deaths.

In their letter, the federal agencies debunked the analysis’ conclusion, saying that cardiovascular experts who studied the concern had concluded that the risk of strokes and heart attacks was lower in people who had been vaccinated, not higher.

More than 13 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been given around the world with little evidence of adverse effects, the federal health agencies said.

“It is the job of public health officials around the country to protect the lives of the populations they serve, particularly the vulnerable. Fueling vaccine hesitancy undermines this effort,” said the letter signed by FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.

The Florida Department of Health on Saturday didn’t respond to an email inquiry about the letter.

#us politics #news #ap news #the associated press #2023 #florida #covidー19 #covid vaccine #coronavirus pandemic #coronavirus vaccine #Food and Drug Administration #Centers for Disease Control and Prevention #Joseph Ladapo #Gov. Ron DeSantis #Florida Department of Health #Rochelle Walensky #Robert Califf

[gwydionmisha]

This is what happens when your Surgeon General thinks demons cause disease, not pathogens.

#Florida #Covid-19 #Covid Vaccine #Joseph Ladapo #News

[auroraluciferi]

"DeSantis has banned books in school libraries, restricted teachers’ classroom discussions about diversity, prohibited high school classes that focus on Black history and people, politicized college curricula, limited spending on diversity programs, ignored greenhouse gas reduction in climate change policy, diminished reproductive rights and outlawed transgender health care," the board wrote.

"The governor has refused all evidence that masks are safe and help prevent COVID, appointed a surgeon general who advised against vaccines, and continues to paint science and evidence as restrictions to the freedom of Floridians. Instead of limiting the role of government, as he claimed in his fight against masks, he is expanding it to selectively promote a particular religious agenda," the board wrote.

The Florida governor's attack on science began with his pushback against lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, DeSantis dismissed the vast majority of scientific data regarding the effectiveness of masks and COVID vaccinations. He also appointed a conspiracy-driven surgeon general who aligned with his belief.

"The governor has refused all evidence that masks are safe and help prevent COVID, appointed a surgeon general who advised against vaccines, and continues to paint science and evidence as restrictions to the freedom of Floridians. Instead of limiting the role of government, as he claimed in his fight against masks, he is expanding it to selectively promote a particular religious agenda," the board wrote.

this is essentially the closest that scientists in the US can get to saying “Ron DeSantis is a racist idiot”

#2023 #us #united states #FL #florida #ron desantis #joseph ladapo #science #crt #critical race theory #diversity #education #climte change #abortion #LGBTQ #trans #transgender #rights #covid #covid19 #covid-19 #mask #masks #public #health #conservative #conservatives #gop #republican #republicans

[infinitemonkeytheory]

If you’ll recall, Jones accused DeSantis of firing her because she refused to change the Florida Department of Health COVID data to make the state look like it was doing better than it was, an accusation that now appears to be untrue.

But it’s important to fully represent both sides, which is why I’m back today to tell you that we actually DO now have very good evidence that someone at the Florida Department of Health really DID make some unethical edits to COVID data and it is incredibly fucked up and we all need to be talking about it.

[…]

So, there we have it: actual proof that someone in the Florida Department of Health (the guy running it, in fact) edited scientific data that went against his own anti-vaccine beliefs, pushing a dangerous narrative that young men are better off getting COVID than getting vaccinated. How many people believed him and this report? How many people failed to get vaccinated and ended up with COVID, which actually does elevate a young man’s risk of heart trouble? How many people ended up in the hospital, on a ventilator, or in the morgue because of this?

#desantis #joseph ladapo #florida #covid #fraud #skepchick

[shortfeedshq]

New Analysis Suggests COVID-19 Vaccine May Not Be Necessary for Certain Groups: What You Need to Know

According to a CNN report, a new analysis by Dr. Joseph Ladapo, a professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, claims that COVID-19 vaccination may not be necessary for certain groups, such as those who have already contracted the virus or who are low-risk. Dr. Ladapo’s analysis focuses on the state of Florida, where he argues that vaccine mandates may do more harm than…

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#analysis #community transmission #COVID-19 #death #decision-making #elderly #Florida #guidance #healthcare professionals #herd immunity #Joseph Ladapo #low-risk #mandates #public health #severe illness #underlying health conditions #vaccination #vaccine #variants #vulnerable