Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo confirmed by Florida Senate

[Zorro]

Source: Tampa Bay Times

Republicans made the case for the doctor Wednesday over objections from Democrats.

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Senate on Wednesday voted to confirm Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ pick to be the state’s surgeon general.

The party-line 24-15 vote was the culmination of a contentious approval process for Ladapo, who faced hours of questions from two different Senate committees in recent weeks.

In a brief debate session Wednesday, Republican senators made the case for Ladapo as a maverick thinker who won’t let politics or media narratives get in the way of doing what’s best for Florida.

“We get a man who literally looks at the data. Who, yes, follows the science, and questions it. That’s what I want. I want the best,” said Sen. Aaron Bean, R-Fernandina Beach. “I want a nationally recognized, not only a doctor, but a researcher who’s going to be there when the going gets tough.”

Read more: https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2022/02/23/florida-surgeon-general-joseph-ladapo-confirmed-by-florida-senate/

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The rampant arrogance of Florida Republicans remains unabated.

[rurallib]

1. good god

[FloridaBlues]

2. We better pray there's no new pandemics. The Republican Party have lost their minds.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Isn't he the guy who claimed to have treated Covid patients in California,

even though no other medical person who actually treated Covid patients at that hospital had ever seen him on those wards?

[dalton99a]

7. Yep. He lied.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ladapo promoted unproven treatments, opposed COVID-19 vaccine requirements, questioned the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, and associated with America's Frontline Doctors, a far-right group known for promoting falsehoods about the pandemic.[17][18][19][20] In a March 24, 2020, opinion column in USA Today, Ladapo wrote that he "spent the past week taking care of patients with COVID-19 at UCLA's flagship hospital", an assertion he repeated in a later column published by the Wall Street Journal.[21][22] However, UCLA staff scheduling records from that time period reportedly did not show him assigned to treat COVID patients, and four UCLA colleagues told MSNBC in November 2021 that they did not believe Ladapo had treated COVID patients there.[21][23]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ladapo

[Sneederbunk]

4. Quackpot.

[dchill]

5. They prove their worth on a regular basis.

[not fooled]

6. And thus the descent into madness

continues apace.

[DURHAM D]

8. Quack. Quack. Quack.