Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo is urging the passing of statewide legislation to minimize purported incidents of doctors rejecting patients due to being unvaccinated.
Newsweek reached out to the Florida Department of Health for comment.
Why It Matters
In March, Lapado and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis urged Florida lawmakers to pass legislation making it illegal for businesses and government entities to fire or refuse to hire employees based on their vaccination status , as well as to implement a permanent ban on mRNA vaccine mandates in Florida—which Ladapo compared to the “horrific things” doctors did to Jewish people in Nazi concentration camps.
What To Know
Ladapo, in remarks made Monday during a Senate Committee on Rules meeting, lamented how parents across Florida have purportedly had trouble finding pediatricians due to certain doctors refusing to see children “if they deviate at all from the vaccine schedule issued by the Centers for Disease Control ( CDC ).”
“We’re in a new era,” Ladapo said. “There are more people now asking questions about ‘what’s really best for my kid’ after the last few years we’ve been in. There are way more parents; most of these parents aren’t even parents that don’t want any vaccines for their kids. That’s the minority of the parents…