Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo is calling for people to stop getting mRNA COVID vaccines over safety concerns that the shots could possibly deliver DNA contaminants into human cells, a view at odds with mainstream medical science
A doctor disagrees
Fla. surgeon general against COVID vaccines. FDA disagrees.
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo exposes political mischief posing as scientific thought. You would think that his Harvard education would mean something, but sometimes applicants like Ladapo are admitted since their thinking post-grad cannot be evaluated prior to their acceptance. Gov. Ron DeSantis has a political ax to grind with the current state-of-the-art science but should not allow his lackey to pose as a medical expert when Ladapo’s positions are disconnected from the vast majority of expert medical authorities concerning COVID vaccines and, by association, any other medical assertions Ladapo might try to promulgate in the future. By the way, I am a medical doctor who has had all his COVID shots/boosters, as have most of my colleagues.
Lawrence Goldberg, Gulfport
Where’s his evidence?
Fla. surgeon general against COVID vaccines. FDA disagrees.
Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo claims that COVID mRNA vaccines could possibly deliver DNA contaminants into human cells and recommends that people not get them. Ladapo doubled down on his concerns Wednesday, saying that the “FDA’s response does not provide data or evidence.” Yet he provides none either. While hundreds of millions of COVID vaccines have been administered around the world, you don’t hear about people dying from the vaccine, while it is this very vaccine that helped to end the pandemic. It is not only dangerous, but reckless for a surgeon general to make the claim that citizens should not receive something that might save their lives, especially if they have an autoimmune condition. Government intervention into personal health care is intrusive, especially when making generalizations with either cherry-picked or no scientific evidence. I find it appalling and shameful that one man has created fear and concern over a studied, tested and life-saving vaccine.
Jackie Kanner, St. Petersburg
