“ On Friday, U.S. public health agencies sent a letter to Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo warning that his fueling of vaccine hesitancy is harming the public, particularly Florida seniors.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention want Ladapo to stop disproportionately focusing public attention on the few instances of adverse effects from the COVID vaccine. They urge him to recognize that more than 13 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been given around the world “with little evidence of widespread adverse events.
The CDC and FDA say Florida’s surgeon general did not use VAERS correctly.
Reports of incidents in VAERS “do not mean that a vaccine caused the event,” the federal agencies said. Anyone can enter data in VAERS. Large, carefully-designed studies by the CDC and other organizations find that there is a small chance of specific side effects but the risk of dying from COVID-19 when unvaccinated is much higher than the risk of dying from a vaccine.“
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