Gov. DeSantis' latest Covid call wasn’t just at odds with federal public health officials, but some Florida parents too. -MaddowBlog.
Florida's partial reversalA few months into the pandemic, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis thought it’d be a good idea toof hydroxychloroquine. The Republican governor either didn’t know or didn’t care that the medication was ineffective against Covid-19, and medical professionals throughout the state had no interest in the drug that was irrelevant to the public health crisis.
More than a year later, the Biden administration dropped two antibody Covid treatments when the drugmakers themselves conceded they were ineffective against the omicron variant. DeSantis, saying the White House should continue to make the treatments available anyway because ... well, the Floridian never fully explained why he wanted the public to have access to medications that don’t work.
Now, as young children finally become eligible for Covid vaccines, 49 states have ordered doses for the public. NBC NewsFlorida parents with kids under 5 years old may find themselves waiting longer than the rest of the country to get their youngest children vaccinated against Covid since state officials have decided not to order any doses for that age group.
But DeSantis — the one who ordered a million unused doses of hydroxychloroquine and demanded delivery of antibody treatments that don’t work — said yesterday that his administration would not to order the vaccine for Florida’s children.this morning, “Florida is the only of the 50 states not working with the administration to give parents the choice of taking their child to their pediatrician to get their youngest kids vaccinated.
It’s an important point: DeSantis wasn’t just making a recommendation that’s at odds with federal public health officials, he also appeared to make a decision about his state’s vaccine supply. If parents in Florida disagreed with their far-right governor, and wanted to protect their young children from a dangerous contagion, those parents would've found it vastly more difficult than families in literally every other state.
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