{"id":31062,"date":"2023-03-11T13:02:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=31062"},"modified":"2023-03-11T13:02:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:02:44","slug":"fla-surgeon-general-joseph-ladapo-gets-a-scathing-letter-from-cdc-and-fda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/03\/11\/fla-surgeon-general-joseph-ladapo-gets-a-scathing-letter-from-cdc-and-fda\/","title":{"rendered":"Fla. Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo gets a scathing letter from CDC and FDA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control leaders slapped Florida&#8217;s surgeon general with a scathing letter Friday. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Fla.-Surgeon-General-Joseph-Ladapo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31063\" width=\"380\" height=\"253\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both accuse Dr. Joseph Ladapo of fueling COVID-19 vaccine hesitation instead of accepting scientific facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;You&#8217;d think that my colleagues have been taken over by zombies or something,&#8221; Dr. Ladapo said during his 2022 confirmation of members of the medical and scientific community who accepted mainstream opinions on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Concerned about claims Dr. Ladapo made about the adverse events from the vaccine, FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf and CDC&#8217;s Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky signed a four-page letter that statements considered &#8220;\u2026incorrect, misleading and could be harmful to the American public.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both leaders attacked claims that growing numbers of Floridians complain about life-threatening conditions linked to COVID-19 vaccines. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CDC and the FDA insist those reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VARES) do not mean vaccines caused such problems, according to the letter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also explains that researchers need more time to investigate.&nbsp; Based on what evidence currently available, both agencies see no evidence of increased risk of death associated with vaccines and said vaccinations save lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It is the job of public health officials around the country to protect the lives of the populations they serve, particularly the vulnerable,&#8221; Drs Califf and Walensky wrote.&nbsp; &#8220;Fueling vaccine hesitancy undermines this effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control leaders slapped Florida&#8217;s surgeon general with a scathing letter Friday. &nbsp; Both accuse Dr. Joseph Ladapo of fueling COVID-19&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[4742],"class_list":["post-31062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news","tag-fla-surgeon-general-joseph-ladapo-gets-a-scathing-letter-from-cdc-and-fda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}