St. Petersburg, Florida (AP) -Dr. Joseph Ladapo, whose references include two Harvard University, says that the requirement of vaccinations for diseases such as measles, polio and chickenpox corresponds to the “slavery” imposed by the government. It is far from the first time that the general surgeon in Florida is shortened against the grain for medical establishment.
Ladapo, a appointment of the Republican governor Ron Desantis, made global headlines this week by announcing that Florida would eliminate all the prescribed vaccinations for school children and others. He threw the immunization requirements that decades decades back and are considered essential global medical services that have saved millions of life as improper interpretation of the government into personal health decisions.
“Every last one is wrong and drips with contempt and slavery,” said Ladapo this week at a press conference with Desantis. “Who am I or someone else to tell you what you should give in your body? Who should I tell you what your child should give in his body? I don’t have that.”
So far, a specific action plan for the removal of immunization mandates in Florida has not been created despite several inquiries by the Associated Press. Ladapo recognized that some proposed changes would request the state legislator to act. Educators and many members of the health professions are horrified.
“Removing guidelines that keep our children healthy creates unnecessary confusion and fear,” said Dr. Rana Alissa, President of the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. “Schools are close -meshed networks of children, educators and families who easily spread it for infectious diseases.”
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The 46 -year -old Ladapo emigrated to the USA with his parents from Nigeria at the age of five. He acquired a degree in chemistry from Wake Forest University and then visited Harvard, where he received his medical conclusion and also a doctorate in health policy.
This is a well -tried path for medical specialist knowledge. According to Harvard, Ladapo was connected to New York University and later the UCLA, where Desantis, who described him as a general surgeon of Florida in 2021 as Florida surgeon.
Like the governor, Ladapo asked questions about Covid-19 guidelines that forced people to wear masks and move the training online, to reduce, to reduce them from others and to show the detection of covid vaccinations to take part in public events, go to a restaurant or to do a cruise. Ladapo has also misrepresented studies to raise doubts about the MRNA vaccine, said the authors of the studies.
In a declaration of 2024, the Ladapo Ministry of Health warned of the operate of the Covid vaccine and claimed that the Federal Government did not provide sufficient data to support the security and effectiveness of COVID-19-boosters or that previously proven security concerns in connection with COVID-19-vaccination levels and boosters. “These alleged risks include respiratory infections, a greater probability of autoimmune disease and cardiovascular problems.
Almost every major organization for medical or public health denied these claims, including the Food and Drug Administration: “The challenge that we continue to face is the continued distribution of misinformation and disinformation about these vaccines that lead to a vaccine that hesitates that the intake of vaccines reduces the vaccine, said the FDA declaration and added the agency that Agency respectfully prompted to refer the general Florida -Surgeon General.
Ladapo’s supporters and critics question the intellectual health of the other
In his public comments, Ladapo makes it clear that he does not follow the guidance of state health experts, which in his opinion does not consider the entire picture of combating the disease and improvement in public health. His agency did not respond to an Associated Press request for an interview.
“It’s just this sea of ​​madness,” he said this week. “People have to choose one side. People have the right to make their own decisions.”
Ladapo’s focus on what he and Desantis call “medical freedom”, also drives his skepticism over other long -established health policy, such as the warning of the FDA against the consumption of non -pasteurized milk that can contain salmonella and other fatal bacteria, or the addition of fluoride in drinking water.
“At what point can you make your own decisions?” Desantis said this week. “We have done a lot over the years to really be on the right side of the fight against hysteria.”
Ladapo has many critics in the field of public health and increasingly among politicians who want to combine his unorthodox politics to Desantis and other Republicans. The US MP Frederica Wilson, a Democrat from South Florida, wants to suppress Ladapo.
“Losing the mind? It will be ridiculous and parade. Let’s try to kill millions of innocent children? Saving vaccines in childhood,” Wilson wrote on social media this week. “Governor Desantis must either remove Joseph Ladapo as a general surgeon or have him resigned.”
There is no indication of this. Ladapo seems to have the full support of Desantis, and many conservatives cheer his willingness to jam the medical establishment, including what some see as the unfavorable influence of pharmaceutical companies.
“There are many brave people out there -mothers and fathers, doctors, scientists and others -who have shown courage in the fight for medical freedom,” said Ladapo recently on the X Social Media platform. “Let’s go on. To do much more.”
