In what has become a pattern of spreading vaccine misinformation, the Florida health department is telling older Floridians and others at highest risk from covid-19 to avoid most booster shots, saying they are potentially dangerous.
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Ladapo did not respond to a request for comment. DeSantis referred questions to the health department, which said the surgeon general's guidance and citations "speak for themselves" and pointed to a post he made on the social platform X accusing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and FDA of "gaslighting Americans."
"What you see is a pattern of fear and neglect of professional responsibilities across the state, in part because of the fear of this governor and the vindictiveness of this governor," said Goldhagen, a former health department director in Jacksonville. Among its incorrect claims, the Florida bulletin says the new mRNA boosters wrongly target a viral variant, omicron, that is no longer circulating widely. This is false, since all major variants of covid in the past two years evolved from omicron and subsequent mutations.
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