The Florida Department of Health reported another record-setting day for COVID-19 deaths; however, there is a delay in reporting some deaths around the state. ORLANDO, Fla. - The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) is reporting a record number of deaths from COVID-19, listing 156 deaths ...
Speaking during a COVID-19 roundtable in West Palm Beach on Monday, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo cited a recent study from the New York State Department of Health, which looked at Pfizer’s coronavirus shot and found the vaccine’s effectiveness against hospitalizations in children ...
The move goes against the advice of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "The Florida Department of Health is going to be the first officially to recommend against the covid-19 vaccine for healthy children," Joseph Ladapo said, standing next to Florida's governor Rick ...
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. Clinicians and scientists denounced the message as politically ...
In a statement, Pfizer said it was aware of the death, but that it didn’t think there was any direct connection to the vaccine. The death of Dr. Gregory Michael is being investigated along with the Florida Department of Health and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sa...
For example, in October 2021, Howard Goldman, MD, of Delray Beach, Florida, filed a complaint with the Florida Department of Health’s Medical Quality Assurance Program about a physician he alleged “spread doubt about the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines, promoted the use of unp...
Ina bulletinposted Wednesday on the Florida Department of Health's website, Ladapo raised concerns about "nucleic acid contaminants" found in theapproved Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. He claimed this could deliver "contaminant DNA" into human cells and also raised concerns about cancer ris...
The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) has an amazing dataset here: complete line list of the state's COVID-19 cases and deaths. To our knowledge, it is the only open dataset documenting the exact age of hundreds of thousands of cases. This gives us great insights because age is a ve...
Southwest District Health appears to be the first in the nation to be restricted from giving COVID-19 vaccines. Vaccinations are an essential function of a public health department. While policymakers in Texas banned health departments from promoting COVID vaccines and Florida’s surgeon general buck...
Despite claims that Florida traces every case of Covid-19, a CNN investigation found that health authorities in Florida, now the nation’s No. 1 hotspot for the virus, often fail to do contact tracing, long considered a key tool in containing an outbreak