Florida Republicans Advance Confirmation Of Surgeon General After He Refuses To Say Whether Vaxxes Work

January 26, 2022 Covidiots, Republicans

The Tallahassee Democrat reports:

After a lengthy grilling on his merits and qualifications, the Senate Health Policy Committee voted — without its Democratic members — to recommend that Joseph Ladapo be confirmed as Florida’s Surgeon General.

Frustrated by what her and her colleagues called a lack of honest answers from Ladapo after more than an hour of questioning, Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book of Plantation said Democrats on the panel would walk out of the room.

After the four Democrats left the room, Sen. Aaron Bean, R-Jacksonville, called for a vote on recommending confirmation. Republicans, who make up six of the 10 members of the committee, all voted in favor of confirmation.

Florida Politics reports:

Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book asked Ladapo several times whether he believed that vaccines work. But the Harvard-educated physician refused to directly answer the question.

“I consider vaccines in the same way I consider other medical care,” Ladapo said when Book first asked the question. “What we care about clinically is whether they are safe.”

Book asked the question an additional four times before, frustrated with his lengthy indirect answers, she moved onto his position on mask mandates only to get similar vague responses.

Ladapo is affiliated with the nutbag anti-vax group America’s Frontline Doctors, whose co-founder Stella Immanuel claims that women get ovarian cysts because they had sex with demons in their dreams. Immanuel also claims that COVID vaccines can be “reversed” by invoking the name of Jesus in prayers.

Ladopo claims to have treated COVID-19 patients while working at UCLA’s research hospital. However an MSNBC investigation could find no evidence of that and multiple doctors working with UCLA at that time flatly contradicted Ladapo’s claim.



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