Florida Ousts Pro-Vax Pediatrician From State Board

Florida Politico reports:

Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis is pushing out a pediatrician from a board in charge of running the state’s Healthy Kids program because of her viewpoints on vaccines for children under five.

Patronis’ office notified Dr. Lisa Gwynn [photo], who is also serving as the president of the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, in an email sent on Wednesday.

Patronis — a Republican running for re-election this year — was removing Gwynn from the Florida Healthy Kids Board because she had made “some very political statements that do not reflect the CFO’s point of view, even going so far as to as to say that the state is ‘obstruct(ing)’ access to vaccines.”

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Gwynn says the board has only met once since her appointment in March. Florida’s surgeon general, mentioned below, is associated with the anti-vax extremist group America’s Frontline Doctors.

Things are getting worse in Florida.

The #DeSantis regime is retaliating against pediatricians for speaking out against their unprecedented obstruction of COVID vaccines for kids.https://t.co/VAildh9WG8

— Rep. Carlos G Smith (@CarlosGSmith) June 29, 2022

Florida’s decision not to pre-order COVID vaccines for children six months to five years old will lead to delays since doctors and hospitals in the state will be responsible for ordering them. https://t.co/pBCb2WyN7f

— CBS4 Miami (@CBSMiami) June 21, 2022

Ron DeSantis’s political stunt could keep 30,000 disadvantaged children from getting vaccines. https://t.co/Ny5iKG8tzd

— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) June 29, 2022

At yesterday’s briefing, Dr. Ladapo made clear neither he nor Gov. DeSantis believe Florida parents should have the choice to vaccinate their children against the coronavirus at county health departments, the primary point of care for 33,000 Florida kids.

— Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis (@COVIDOversight) June 29, 2022

Any other labels you want to throw at me?

The conversation at the grown-up table is about why the COVID-19 vaccine for children was approved with no data on clinical benefit.

You’re free to come join the adults once you’re done name-calling. https://t.co/Zw0OuznVGO

— Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD (@FLSurgeonGen) June 30, 2022