{"id":185976,"date":"2023-09-13T08:57:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T12:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=185976"},"modified":"2023-09-13T08:57:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T12:57:47","slug":"florida-surgeon-general-joseph-ladapo-warns-against-taking-new-covid-19-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=185976","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Florida surgeon general Joseph Ladapo warns against taking new COVID-19 shots<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 820px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured-image is-news no-lazy-load wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/JosephLadapoto-810x500.jpg\" alt=\"Featured Image\" width=\"810\" height=\"500\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo YouTube video screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Calvin<br \/>\nFreiburger<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/\">LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u2013 Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo counseled against taking any new mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines as the federal government attempts to renew alarm about the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s essentially no evidence for it,\u201d Ladapo said during a press conference Thursday. \u201cThere\u2019s been no clinical trials done in human beings showing it benefits people. There\u2019s been no trial showing that it is a safe product for people. And not only that, but then there are a lot of red flags \u2026 there are multiple studies now from around the world, Brazil, I think Australia, United states \u2026 that show that over time, these vaccines, these mRNA COVID-19 products, actually increase your chances of contracting COVID-19. That\u2019s not normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfdGltZWxpbmVfbGlzdCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOltdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2ZvbGxvd2VyX2NvdW50X3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9iYWNrZW5kIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19yZWZzcmNfc2Vzc2lvbiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZm9zbnJfc29mdF9pbnRlcnZlbnRpb25zX2VuYWJsZWQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib24iLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X21peGVkX21lZGlhXzE1ODk3Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRyZWF0bWVudCIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3Nob3dfYmlyZHdhdGNoX3Bpdm90c19lbmFibGVkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19kdXBsaWNhdGVfc2NyaWJlc190b19zZXR0aW5ncyI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdXNlX3Byb2ZpbGVfaW1hZ2Vfc2hhcGVfZW5hYmxlZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdmlkZW9faGxzX2R5bmFtaWNfbWFuaWZlc3RzXzE1MDgyIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRydWVfYml0cmF0ZSIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfbGVnYWN5X3RpbWVsaW5lX3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9mcm9udGVuZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1699844130254340248&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifesitenews.com%2Fnews%2Fflorida-surgeon-general-joseph-ladapo-warns-against-taking-new-covid-19-shots%2F&amp;sessionId=61a706f79c159e079c05bcc9875cd2e27e9931b1&amp;siteScreenName=LifeSite&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=aaf4084522e3a%3A1674595607486&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1699844130254340248\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese new RNA COVID-19 vaccines include the fact that they actually cause cardiac injury in many people,\u201d Ladapo added, the <i>New York Post<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/09\/10\/florida-surgeon-general-joseph-ladapo-warns-against-newest-covid-19-vaccine-push\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. \u201cCall it subclinical myocarditis, its clinical significance is really unknown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An updated booster shot accounting for the latest variants of the virus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/fda-clears-new-covid-boosters-5-things-know-rcna102577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">could be approved<\/a> as soon as this week, pending final approval from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control &amp; Prevention. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/biden-seeks-money-from-congress-to-develop-new-covid-vaccines-for-latest-variants\/\">asking Congress<\/a> to approve funding to develop entirely new COVID vaccines, citing variants as justification. But controversy persists over the existing COVID shots, which were developed and released under former President Trump\u2019s Operation Warp Speed initiative in a <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.uclahealth.org\/2020\/12\/10\/the-fastest-vaccine-in-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fraction<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nebraskamed.com\/COVID\/were-the-covid-19-vaccines-rushed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">time<\/a> vaccines usually take.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa2114114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Studies<\/a> have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/ultra-vaccinated-israels-debacle-is-a-dire-warning-to-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> that vaccine-induced COVID protection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/boosters-forever-data-show-covid-jab-efficacy-dropped-dramatically-after-6-months\/\">wanes<\/a> around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/medical\/study-shows-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-effectiveness-declines-after-six-months\/ar-AAP8SWO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">six months<\/a> (or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/news-events\/press-announcements\/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-takes-additional-actions-use-booster-dose-covid-19-vaccines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">potentially sooner<\/a>), with whatever protection the shots offer further undermined by the rise of variants since the start of the pandemic in 2020. By contrast, a body of evidence links the vaccines to serious medical problems, a subject the medical establishment has been largely hostile to acknowledge or investigate.<\/p>\n<p>The federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting system (VAERS) reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openvaers.com\/covid-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">36,135 deaths, 209,494 hospitalizations, 20,766 heart attacks, and 27,484 myocarditis and pericarditis cases as of September 1<\/a>, among other ailments. An April 2022 study out of Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/covid-infection-not-linked-to-increased-myocarditis-among-the-unvaccinated-israeli-study\/\">indicates<\/a> that COVID infection itself cannot fully account for the myocarditis numbers, despite common insistence to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>Jab defenders are quick to stress that reports submitted to VAERS are unconfirmed, as anyone can submit one, but U.S. Centers for Disease Control &amp; Prevention (CDC) researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2788346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have recognized<\/a> a \u201chigh verification rate of reports of myocarditis to VAERS after mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccination,\u201d leading to the conclusion that \u201cunder-reporting is more likely\u201d than over-reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Further, VAERS is not the only data source containing red flags. Data from the Pentagon\u2019s Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/us-govt-knew-covid-jabs-were-dangerous-for-young-military-members-retired-generals\/\">shows<\/a> that 2021 saw drastic spikes in a variety of diagnoses for serious medical issues over the previous five-year average, including hypertension (2,181%), neurological disorders (1,048%), multiple sclerosis (680%), Guillain-Barre syndrome (551%), breast cancer, (487%), female infertility (472%), pulmonary embolism (468%), migraines (452%), ovarian dysfunction (437%), testicular cancer (369%), and tachycardia (302%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"subscribe-form-inserted\">Last September, the Japanese Society for Vaccinology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/new-peer-reviewed-study-finds-risk-of-serious-side-effects-to-mrna-covid-vaccines\/\">published<\/a> a peer-reviewed study conducted by researchers from Stanford, UCLA, and the University of Maryland, which found that the \u201cPfizer trial exhibited a 36% higher risk of serious adverse events in the vaccine group\u201d while the \u201cModerna trial exhibited a 6% higher risk of serious adverse events in the vaccine group,\u201d for a combined \u201c16% higher risk of serious adverse events in mRNA vaccine recipients.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"lsn-subscribe-block-10\" class=\"subscribe-block system-www shortcode-inserted\" data-uniqueid=\"10\" data-type=\"inline\" data-edition=\"us-daily\" data-firstname=\"false\" data-lastname=\"false\" data-address=\"false\" data-customfields=\"false\" data-optin=\"false\" data-optinerror=\"false\" data-tagname=\"false\" data-tags=\"false\" data-button=\"Subscribe\" data-stacked=\"false\" data-title=\"false\" data-response=\"false\" data-counter=\"false\" data-track-content=\"1\" data-content-name=\"subscribe\" data-content-piece=\"view\">\n<form id=\"lsn-subscribe-10\" class=\"lsn-subscribe \"><input id=\"lsn-subscribe-birth-year-10\" autocomplete=\"nope\" name=\"lsn-subscribe-birth-year\" type=\"text\" value=\"\" data-lpignore=\"true\" data-1p-ignore=\"true\" \/> <input id=\"lsn-subscribe-timecode-10\" class=\"lsn-subscribe-timecode\" autocomplete=\"nope\" name=\"lsn-subscribe-timecode\" type=\"text\" value=\"2023-09-13T00:00:00.000Z\" data-lpignore=\"true\" data-1p-ignore=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"lsn-subscribe-title-10\" class=\"lsn-subscribe-title\"><i class=\"icon-envelope\"><\/i>subscribe to our daily headlines<\/p>\n<div id=\"lsn-subscribe-wrapper-10\" class=\"lsn-subscribe-wrapper\"><input id=\"lsn-subscribe-email-10\" class=\"lsn-subscribe-email\" name=\"lsn-subscribe-email\" type=\"text\" placeholder=\"Email\" \/><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"lsn-subscribe-block-10\" class=\"subscribe-block system-www shortcode-inserted\" data-uniqueid=\"10\" data-type=\"inline\" data-edition=\"us-daily\" data-firstname=\"false\" data-lastname=\"false\" data-address=\"false\" data-customfields=\"false\" data-optin=\"false\" data-optinerror=\"false\" data-tagname=\"false\" data-tags=\"false\" data-button=\"Subscribe\" data-stacked=\"false\" data-title=\"false\" data-response=\"false\" data-counter=\"false\" data-track-content=\"1\" data-content-name=\"subscribe\" data-content-piece=\"view\">\n<form id=\"lsn-subscribe-10\" class=\"lsn-subscribe \">\n<div id=\"lsn-subscribe-edition-wrapper-10\" class=\"lsn-subscribe-edition\"><label for=\"lsn-subscribe-us-daily-10\"><input id=\"lsn-subscribe-us-daily-10\" checked=\"checked\" name=\"lsn-subscribe-edition-10\" type=\"radio\" value=\"U.S. DAILY EDITION\" \/> US<\/label> <label for=\"lsn-subscribe-can-daily-10\"><input id=\"lsn-subscribe-can-daily-10\" name=\"lsn-subscribe-edition-10\" type=\"radio\" value=\"CANADIAN DAILY EDITION\" \/> Canada<\/label> <label for=\"lsn-subscribe-cat-daily-10\"><input id=\"lsn-subscribe-cat-daily-10\" name=\"lsn-subscribe-edition-10\" type=\"radio\" value=\"CATHOLIC DAILY EDITION\" \/> Catholic<\/label><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<p>In December 2022, Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin hosted a roundtable discussion during which civil rights attorney Aaron Siri <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/watch-medical-freedom-attorney-reveals-data-cdc-tried-to-hide-exposing-covid-jab-dangers\/\">detailed<\/a> data from the CDC\u2019s V-Safe reporting system revealing that 800,000 of the system\u2019s 10 million participants, or approximately 7.7%, reported needing medical care after COVID injection. \u201cTwenty-five percent of those people needed emergency care or were hospitalized, and another 48 percent sought urgent care,\u201d Siri added. \u201cAlso, another 25 percent on top of the 7.7 percent reported being unable to work or go to school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/florida-surgeon-general-highlights-new-studies-warning-of-covid-jab-dangers\/\">Another study<\/a> by a team of American, British, and Canadian researchers, published last December in the <i>Journal of Medical Ethics<\/i>, found that COVID booster mandates for university students \u2013 a relatively healthy group at relatively low risk from the virus \u2013 do far more harm than good: \u201cper COVID-19 hospitalisation prevented, we anticipate at least 18.5 serious adverse events from mRNA vaccines, including 1.5\u20134.6 booster-associated myopericarditis cases in males (typically requiring hospitalisation).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ladapo, a Harvard-trained physician and Nigerian-born professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/democrats-media-pounce-on-floridas-new-pro-freedom-surgeon-general\/\">selected<\/a> by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to be Florida\u2019s Surgeon General and Secretary of Health in September 2021, as just one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/trump-desantis-trade-jabs-in-interviews-over-fauci-handling-of-covid-19\/\">many moves<\/a> the governor and 2024 presidential contender has made since the beginning of the pandemic to oppose the medical establishment. Ladapo has been a vocal critic of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/florida-surgeon-general-blasts-masks-these-things-are-not-saving-lives\/\">COVID masking<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/florida-surgeon-general-answers-critics-after-state-advises-young-men-to-avoid-mrna-covid-shots\/\">mRNA shots<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/head-of-florida-health-department-slams-profoundly-corrupt-cdc-over-handling-of-pandemic\/\">what he called<\/a> the \u201cprofoundly corrupt\u201d CDC.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the DeSantis administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/florida-supreme-court-approves-desantis-request-for-grand-jury-to-investigate-covid-shots\/\">petitioned<\/a> for a grand jury investigation into the mRNA vaccines\u2019 manufacturers, including the possibility of \u201cmisleading the public for financial gain\u201d as to their products\u2019 performance relating to \u201ctransmission, prevention, efficacy, and safety.\u201d The grand jury report is <a href=\"https:\/\/floridianpress.com\/2023\/09\/desantis-only-leader-in-the-country-to-investigate-potential-crimes-by-covid-19-vaccine-manufacturers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slated<\/a> to be complete in December, although jurors may request an additional six months.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/florida-surgeon-general-joseph-ladapo-warns-against-taking-new-covid-19-shots\/?utm\">https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/florida-surgeon-general-joseph-ladapo-warns-against-taking-new-covid-19-shots\/?utm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}