The U.S. Food and Drug Administration fought back on Friday against what it calls “the proliferation of misinformation” by Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. In a letter earlier this month to the FDA, Ladapo had questioned the agency’s drug approval and raised alarms about what he sees as the risk of potential cancer posed by COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration fought back on Friday against what it calls “the proliferation of misinformation” by Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.

In a letter earlier this month to the FDA, Ladapo had questioned the agency’s drug approval and raised alarms about what he sees as the risk of potential cancer posed by COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. Ladapo, the leader of Florida’s health department, said he believed the drug delivery system used by mRNA vaccines could be an “efficient vehicle for delivering contaminant DNA into human cells.”

But a top researcher with the FDA released a public response to Ladapo on Friday saying the Surgeon General’s scientific assertion regarding the cancer risk is “implausible.”

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“These questions (raised by Ladapo) are designed to scare people rather than investigate true science,” she said. “What we do know is that COVID continues to kill thousands of people every month in the U.S. I think he is doing a disservice to the people of Florida by trying to scare them into not getting a vaccine that can be lifesaving.”

  • Lath@kbin.social
    355·
    11 months ago

    He’s not wrong per say, it’s just that the level of danger increases or decreases depending on whose tail gets stepped on.

      • Lath@kbin.social
        112·
        11 months ago

        I rather believe the goal is to maximize the negative effects of the COVID vaccines as per his interests.

        • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          11 months ago

          That doesn’t even make sense you fucking idiot. His goal by trying to get people to stop getting the vax is to maximize the negative effects of the vax?

          How the fuck would stopping people from getting it maximize the damage done by those that get it?

          It’s a miracle you even manage to draw breath you fucking imbecile

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      201·
      11 months ago

      He is wrong. Entirely wrong about everything. There is zero truth or accuracy to any statement made by the Surgeon General of Florida.

          • Lath@kbin.social
            26·
            11 months ago

            I believe you are mostly correct. The vaccines are generally safe and his intentions are not for the general public’s interest. But, just like his special case exists, so do the circumstances in which the vaccines can be dangerous.
            Blindly saying he is completely wrong about everything when we can’t know that for sure is in itself wrong because we can’t be absolutely sure that he is, even though he may be.
            I think the word applied here is “semantics”.

    • drdiddlybadger@pawb.socialEnglish
      13·
      11 months ago

      He is wrong. There is no statistically significant risk of cancer from the vaccine vs any other thing youd be exposed to especially living in Florida.