Fri Mar 18, 2022 – 3:50 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his state’s decision to recommend against vaccinating healthy children with the experimental COVID-19 injections.
Stating that the “burden of proof” is “on the people that say you should get a 5-year-old kid vaccinated” against COVID-19, DeSantis stood by his Surgeon General’s March 8 announcement by reiterating that the risks of vaccinating children against the highly survivable coronavirus may outweigh the benefits, and therefore the state of Florida is not recommending the injection of healthy kids.
Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo “is leading on this,” DeSantis told reporters on Wednesday.
“And I think his view — and I agree with it — is the burden of proof is on the people that say you should get a 5-year-old kid vaccinated for COVID, OK? And they have to carry that burden. It’s not the burden for a parent to … prove why you shouldn’t do it. And if you look at the clinical trial, for example, with the Pfizer [shot] for the 5- to 11-[year-olds], there was no severe COVID in the vaccine arm, but there was also a no severe COVID in the
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