Experts

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An expert cited in the article (click the image above for text):

Brian Castrucci, president and CEO of public health group the de Beaumont Foundation, said DeSantis “appears to be focused on creating fear around vaccines that have been shown to be safe and effective,” rather than protecting the lives of Floridians. “These vaccines have been tested and scrutinized more than any other vaccine, and they continue to save lives.”

Shown to be safe and effective… What The Beaumont Foundation is not:

The de Beaumont Foundation is a left-progressive private foundation supporting aggressive and intrusive public health activism… The organization is a staunch advocate of government control of activities even tangentially related to health outcomes.

In June 2020, de Beaumont Foundation announced it had partnered with controversial left-progressive journalist Soledad O’Brien, a supporter of aggressive lockdown policies to inhibit transmission of pandemic coronavirus,[11] to produce Outbreak: The First Response, a film praising the pandemic response of the public health officials of hard-lockdown and left-wing Seattle.[12]

In November 2020, the de Beaumont Foundation released the results of a survey it had commissioned from longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz on persuasion tactics to reduce opposition to lockdown measures and other COVID-related infringements on personal liberties among voters, especially political conservatives. It proposed renaming lockdowns to “stay-at-home orders” in public messages; recommended avoiding terminology such as “order,” “mandate,” or “controls” in describing COVID-related infringements on civil liberties; and suggested that governments hide the source of lockdown orders behind “public health agencies” to avoid the negative connotations of the term “government.”[14]

Other “experts” cited:

Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at Johns Hopkins University and former principal deputy commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, told The Hill. “No one has either inappropriately or purposely either overstated or understated the vaccine in any way,” said Benjamin. “It’s a brand-new technology. Like any brand-new technology, you make some assumptions about what you think’s going to happen. It actually turned out to be a whole lot better than most people thought it would be.”

William Schaffner, professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University’s department of health policy and its division of infectious diseases. Schaffner noted, there are two independent panels composed of voluntary, external experts who advise federal agencies on vaccine policy. These committees are the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee at the FDA and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for which Schaffner is an ex-officio member.

Both Benjamin and Schaffner pushed back against DeSantis’s suggestion, stating that the risk of myocarditis was in fact higher in COVID-19 infections than in coronavirus immunizations. Schaffner referred to myocarditis following vaccination as a “transient phenomenon” from which the vast majority of patients fully recovered, which has also been observed by the CDC in surveys.

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