“Did you do any analysis?” Tapper tears into Ladapo over Florida’s vaccine free-for-all

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo stopped by CNN s State of the Union on Sunday for his first major televised interview since announcing his state would end all vaccination mandates Speaking to Jake Tapper on Sunday Ladapo held the line that parental rights trump transmission rates of childhood diseases The host grew incredulous when he confronted Ladapo on the fact that Florida did not analyze how ending community school vaccination requirements might lead to increased cases of deadly diseases Ladapo commented the facts was not necessary to make his decision since he assumed parental rights were more fundamental than any negative outcome You re trying to lift the vaccine mandate in Florida and your department and you did not even do a projection as to how this could impact populace physical condition Tapper stated in an interview that felt like two separate conversations at once You have not prepared hospitals in the Florida counties preponderance at peril with the best treatments for any outbreaks of measles mumps rubella whooping cough polio And you have not looked into how multiple kids might now get these preventable diseases Do I need to analyze whether it s appropriate for parents to be able to decide what goes into the children s bodies Ladapo replied I don t need to do an analysis on that LADAPO This whole 'Florida hasn't done any analysis' that's nonsense TAPPER You reported you hadn't done any projections LADAPO We don't need to do any projections pic twitter com O HJ Utx Aaron Rupar atrupar September Related Why MAGA hates science so much Ladapo mentioned his position was very simple There are countries that don t have vaccine mandates And the sky isn t falling over there he reported The right position is that parents should be the final say on any vaccines that they choose to take or not take Tapper pointed out that no other conservative state even ones that have gone on similar parental rights crusades in new years has ended mandatory vaccinations for populace school children He noted that vaccination for diseases like polio and measles remains overwhelmingly supported by parents in Florida and that every major health organization recommends childhood vaccination Ladapo would not be swayed I share what I believe is the right thing to do whether it s popular or not Ladapo revealed We ve been right over and over again because what we ve disclosed has been based on evidence and common sense TAPPER Hepatitis A whooping cough and chickenpox cases are rising in Florida Before you made this decision to try to lift vaccine mandates for Florida did your department do any input analysis of how several new cases of these diseases there will be with no vaccine mandates pic twitter com N imThzAZ Aaron Rupar atrupar September Read more about this topic Florida plans to ban all vaccine mandates Kennedy family urge RFK Jr to quit after Senate vaccine hearing RFK Jr could cause vaccine makers to flee U S domain The post Did you do any analysis Tapper tears into Ladapo over Florida s vaccine free-for-all appeared first on Salon com