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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nations top infectious disease expert, sought to remind Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis of the critical role played by vaccines throughout history in response to the Republicans latest controversial comments about COVID-19 shots.
DeSantis ― whose state is currently being ravaged by the highly contagious delta variant of the virus and who has personally battled to ban mask mandates in schools ― on Friday suggested vaccinations are about your health and whether you want that protection or not and really doesnt impact me or anyone else.
If he feels that vaccines are not important for people, that they are just important for some people, thats completely incorrect, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on Tuesdays broadcast of CNNs New Day.
Vaccination ... has been the solution to every major public health issue in which a vaccine was developed for, he continued. I mean: smallpox, polio, measles. Im not sure what people are talking about when they push back on vaccinations. It is historically, over decades and decades and decades, shown to be the way you control an infectious disease.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/desantis-gets-vital-history-lesson-124306682.html
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)DBoon
(22,354 posts)Smallpox inoculation was introduced to Europe in the early 18th century
Louis Pasteur produced the first laboratory-developed vaccine in 1879.
ProfessorGAC
(64,995 posts)How much more data does that drone desantis need?
littlemissmartypants
(22,631 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Towlie
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IcyPeas
(21,857 posts)same question for Abbott