After Measles Outbreak Traced To Florida Spreads To Multiple States, Critics Blame DeSantis' Vaccine-Skeptic Surgeon Gen

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Health officials have identified Florida as a common link in measles cases reported in at least three other states this year, which has shed light on the early infections that have contributed to the recent surge of this highly contagious virus.

According to communications between local investigators and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Florida Department of Health believes that families from Indiana and Louisiana, who were affected by measles earlier this year, may have come into contact with each other while in the state. Louisiana had previously confirmed that their first two measles cases were linked to travel to another state but did not disclose the specific location. In addition to Indiana and Louisiana, a patient in Ohio also contracted measles after they visited Florida this year.

Emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request reveal discussions among health officials regarding a possible connection between these cases. It remains unclear if these cases are the same as those reported by the Orlando Sentinel last month, which involved an adult and three young children treated at local emergency rooms.

Grant Kemp, deputy press secretary for the Florida Department of Health, highlighted that emphasis on Florida as the epicenter of the measles cases would be deceptive, as other states have also reported infections.

Critics have placed the blame squarely on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who allowed unvaccinated kids to return to schools with measles outbreaks.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/after-measles-outbreak-traced-to-florida-spreads-to-multiple-states-critics-blame-desantis-vaccine-skeptic-surgeon-general/ar-BB1kFnFQ

[SunSeeker]

1. Ladapo should have his medical license yanked.

Alas, that will never happen in Florida under a Republican governor.

[mwb970]

2. The pro-life trump party.

[calimary]

3. Indeed.

[Warpy]

4. I blame all Republicans who have manipulated simple minded and ignorant people

because most of them are religion addled . The Republicans are not religion addled, they just use it for their own purposes, and those purposes never do anyone any good.

[agingdem]

7. the blame for this measles outbreak is Ron DeSantis...

he appointed Ladapo Florida Surgeon General precisely because Ladapo opposed coronavirus mandates (anti-mask/anti-vaccine) which aligned with DeSantis's politics and solidified DeSantis's bonafides within the GOP....DeSantis is to blame for turning Florida into a petri dish of preventable disease, not just measles but leprosy as well..

[TSExile]

9. Deathsantis

He has surely earned that nickname.

[Warpy]

12. Oh, De Satan is too stupid to have thought it up, himself

He was aided first by Andrew Wakefield, who was heavily invested in a competing measles vaccine and made it his life's work to eliminate the safe and effective one that became standard, instead. It falls on religious dumbasses who think god's going to protect them from the consequences of their own stupidity. And now, it's RFK, Jr. If his dad was around, you can bet that guy would be tetting a rolled up Boston Globe upside his head daily, and the Globe is a big, heavy newspaper even during the week.

Mostly, DeSatan is appealing to the idiot "god's will be done" bunch who neither know nor care that measles is a deadly disease that can maim and kill children. There are a lot of those in Florida, another reason I refused to live there even when I inherited a 3 bedroom house with a swimming pool. NO THANKS.

I hold out hope that is slim but still there that Florida is going to have a lot of surprises on election day this year, I know too many people back there who are neither stupid nor crazy and who despise DeSatan and the fundagelicals he rode in on. We'll see.

But he didn't think his antivax crusade up on his own. He had plenty of help going back many years.

[Cha]

5. That's Where the Blame Belongs.. right on that Assholes Stupid ass feet.

So dangerously Stupid for anyone to think they wouldn't be causing great harm and or death to their Couldn't care less about people Policies'.

[keopeli]

6. All further evidence that vaccines are helpful, not harmful. Yet RFK Jr is sticking to his 'guns'.

[EleanorR]

8. He's not a skeptic, he's a liar nt

[tanyev]

10. New tourism motto: Take a little bit of Florida home with you!

[malaise]

11. Duh!

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