{"id":4726,"date":"2024-03-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4726"},"modified":"2024-03-03T22:15:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T03:15:54","slug":"florida-is-swamped-by-disease-outbreaks-as-quackery-replaces-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/florida-is-swamped-by-disease-outbreaks-as-quackery-replaces-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida is swamped by disease outbreaks as quackery replaces science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shortly before Joseph Ladapo was sworn in as Florida\u2019s surgeon general in 2022, the New Yorker ran a short column welcoming the vaccine-skeptic doctor to his new role, and highlighting his advocacy for the use of leeches in public health.<\/p>\n

It was satire of course, a teasing of the Harvard-educated physician for his unorthodox medical views, which include a steadfast belief that life-saving Covid shots are the work of the devil, and that opening a window is the preferred treatment for the inhalation of toxic fumes from gas stoves.<\/p>\n

But now, with an entirely preventable outbreak of measles spreading across Florida, medical experts are questioning if quackery really has become official health policy in the nation\u2019s third most-populous state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shortly before Joseph Ladapo was sworn in as Florida\u2019s surgeon general in 2022, the New Yorker ran a short column welcoming the vaccine-skeptic doctor to his new role, and highlighting his advocacy for the use of leeches in public health.<\/p>\n

It was satire of course, a teasing of the Harvard-educated physician for his unorthodox medical views, which include a steadfast belief that life-saving Covid shots are the work of the devil, and that opening a window is the preferred treatment for the inhalation of toxic fumes from gas stoves.<\/p>\n

But now, with an entirely preventable outbreak of measles spreading across Florida, medical experts are questioning if quackery really has become official health policy in the nation\u2019s third most-populous state.<\/p>\n

Continue readingFlorida is swamped by disease outbreaks as quackery replaces science<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[525,18,539,388,309,14,130,51,15],"class_list":["post-4726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-denial","tag-covid-19","tag-florida","tag-measles","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-science-denial","tag-united-states","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4726"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4729,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions\/4729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}