Health Experts Blast DeSantis For New Anti-Vax Stance

The Hill reports:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) petition for a grand jury investigation into COVID-19 vaccines, in which he decries the ongoing vaccine campaign as “propaganda” by the Biden administration, is drawing fierce criticism from health experts.

Physicians and public health experts say his request betrays decades of established procedure designed to ensure the safety and efficacy of the vaccines, and only serves to stoke further immunization fears.

“This is turning a matter of health and science into a political wedge issue, with the likely consequence that many people will be misled into placing themselves and their families at risk of serious illness and death,” said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean at Johns Hopkins University.

Read the full article. As had been widely reported, DeSantis’s abrupt reversal on vaccines, which he had previously praised and promoted on many occasions, is a transparent ploy for the anti-vax/QAnon subsection of Trump’s base.

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