Health experts have expressed fierce criticism towards Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after he described the ongoing vaccine campaign as propaganda by the Biden administration in his petition for a grand jury investigation into COVID-19 vaccines.
DeSantis’s request only serves to stoke further immunization fears and betrays the decades of established procedure designed to ensure the vaccines’ safety and efficacy, physicians and public health experts have said.
The Florida Supreme Court approved on Thursday DeSantis’s petition for a grand jury investigation, clearing the way for a probe into, as his office described, the wrongdoing committed against Floridians related to the COVID-19 vaccine.
In his petition first announced during a roundtable discussion two weeks ago, the Florida governor expressed suspicion over the COVID-19 vaccines’ ability to prevent transmission of the virus.
He also doubted the public statements that officials like President Biden and outgoing chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci made on the subject.
DeSantis criticized federal COVID-19 guidance as being a political farce and condemned the linking of morality to pandemic mitigation methods such as staying at home following the outbreak and pushing the vaccination once the shots became available.
He suggested in his petition that it is likely these individuals and companies with an incentive to do so created these perceptions for financial gain since it’s impossible to imagine that so many influential individuals came to this view on their own.
On top of expressing suspicion over the vaccine’s ability to prevent transmission of the virus, DeSantis further asserted that the risk of myocarditis could possibly outweigh the benefits conferred by immunization.
A rare side effect of mRNA vaccination, myocarditis – an inflammation of the muscles surrounding the heart – has been observed to be more common among young male patients but health experts argue that the risk of myocarditis was in fact higher in COVID-19 infections than in coronavirus immunizations.
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