The feds took on Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo last week in a highly critical letter responding to the state’s top doctor’s fear-mongering claims about COVID vaccine risks.
Good. Voters across the country need to understand more about the fringe views of the man Gov. DeSantis chose to carry out his politically motivated, anti-vaccine message in Florida — before they have to evaluate DeSantis as a potential Republican nominee for the presidency.
Ladapo has put his anti-vaxx views on display for years. Before DeSantis picked him, he wrote opinion pieces in The Wall Street Journal and USAToday raising fears about COVID vaccine risks and touting hydroxychloroquine as a treatment — though it has been shown over and over to have no benefit to COVID patients.
