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State Chapters => Florida => Topic started by: libertybele on January 14, 2022, 08:27:29 pm
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Florida won't be Biden's 'biomedical police,' DeSantis' office says after Supreme Court ruling
Florida won’t be enforcing the Biden Administration’s mandatory vaccination policy for health care workers upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, a spokeswoman for the governor’s office said Thursday.
“The state of Florida is not going to serve as the Biden Administration’s biomedical police,” Christina Pushaw, press secretary for Gov. Ron DeSantis, said in an email to the USA TODAY Network-Florida. “Firing unvaccinated healthcare workers, many of whom have infection-conferred immunity, is unethical and unscientific on its face.”
She said it also harms patients “because hospitals in California and other states are now requiring vaccinated, COVID-infected healthcare workers to treat patients due to staffing shortages — which were exacerbated by vaccine mandates. How does that keep anyone safe?”.............
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/state/2022/01/13/florida-wont-enforce-biden-vaccine-mandate-health-care-workers-upheld-supreme-court/6518864001/