A report by the Florida Department of Health claiming that grave dangers from the coronavirus vaccine merited men ages 18 to 39 avoiding the shot omitted key data showing that the risk of getting the virus far exceeded the risk of getting the shot, AP reports.
Florida’s imported Surgeon General, California anti-vax activist and demon seed theory supporter Joseph Ladapo released a report last Fall claiming that the risk of outlier cases of fatal cardiac issues and other long-term heart damage in men within the age group who got the vaccine were sufficient to recommend the demographic not get vaccinated. The report was Ladapo’s and Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s effort to undermine a CDC study demonstrating the benefits of the vaccine and recommending inoculation.
However, early drafts of the Ladapo’s report show that researchers in the Florida department found there was a far greater chance of long-term cardiac damage, including death, from getting the virus without being vaccinated than the dangers of similar outcomes from people vaccinated. “This is a grave violation of research integrity,” Matt Hitchings, an infectious disease epidemiologist and professor of biostatistics at the University of Florida, said. “(The vaccine) has done a lot to advance the health of people of Florida and he’s encouraging people to mistrust it.”