The Florida health department has issued a bulletin advising older Floridians and other high-risk individuals to avoid most COVID-19 booster shots, citing potential dangers. Clinicians and scientists have condemned the message as politically motivated misinformation that undermines public health efforts.
In what has become a pattern of spreading vaccine misinformation, the Florida health department is telling older Floridians and others at highest risk from
vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna, including that they could threaten 'the integrity of the human genome.' Florida's guidance generally regurgitates ideas from anti-vaccine websites, said John Moore, a professor of microbiology at Weill Cornell Medicine.Ladapo did not respond to a request for comment.
boosters and encouraged providers to 'engage with their residents, families and health care professionals to make informed decisions.'A spokesperson for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Cherie Duvall-Jones, said the agency 'strongly disagrees with the State Surgeon General of Florida's characterization of the safety and effectiveness of the updated mRNA
in the past two years evolved from Omicron and subsequent mutations.'You start off with that and then you go into head-exploding-emoji territory,' Moore said. 'It's a litany of lies out of the anti-vaxxer playbook.'Other claims in Ladapo's bulletin include: vaccine. Most patients recovered quickly. Myocarditis is more commonly caused by
,' Schaffner said.The bulletin urges all Floridians, including older residents, to avoid mRNA vaccines and find alternatives. But it comes off as 'not in good faith' because it doesn't specifically mention the only non-mRNA vaccine available, from Novavax, Dean said.Several critics of Ladapo's bulletin said it read like a tryout for a job in a Trump administration advised by longtime anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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