Like today, calling for a halt to the use of
mRNA
COVID-19 vaccines. Those are the most common COVID vaccines on
the market right now.
But federal health officials and some local doctors are pushing
back.
Let's go to FOX 13's Aaron Nesmer live in our
newsroom for us tonight.
Hi there, Aaron. So what is the state's top Dr.
here suggesting we do that?
Mark. Florida Surgeon General Doctor Joseph Latipo hasn't been shy
about his skepticism about about COVID-19 vaccines.
Now Latipo is claiming they could trigger other serious health
concerns,
but the wider medical community disagrees.
Florida Surgeon General Doctor Joseph Latifo has a long history
of criticizing the FDA and CDC regarding the COVID-19 vaccine.
That includes comments he made last September.
We continue to live in a world where
the CDC and the FDA,
when it comes to COVID at least,
are just beating their own path and a direction that
is inexplicable in terms of thinking about data and thinking
about common sense.
Four months later, Lattipo went a step further.
Wednesday morning he tweeted, quote,
I am calling for a halt to the use of
mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
Latipo went on to claim that the FDA and CDC
have long played fast and loose with COVID-19 vaccine safety,
something he has previously alluded to.
After, you know, four to six months,
what was just waning effectiveness in terms of prevention of
infection is entering a negative area.
Doctor Thomas Unash with USF Health Center for Global Research
explained
Latipo's concerns. He says they center around speculation that DNA
contaminants in the vaccine could combine with human DNA and
cause health risks like cancer.
Unash says the chances of that happening are practically non
existent.
This is like talking about something that's probably A1 in
you know,
10 billion or 100 billion chance that something could possibly
go wrong.
Lattipose tweet follows a letter he sent to the FDA
in December making the same request to stop mRNA COVID
vaccines.
The FDA responded with A2 page letter writing quote based
on a thorough assessment of the entire manufacturing process.
The FDA is confident in the quality,
safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines.
Have we seen large numbers of people dying from getting
mRNA vaccines or people getting cancers from RNA vaccines?
I would say no. I would say what you've had
here effectively
he's saying that there's no evidence,
but I say worldwide we've just run the bit,
the largest clinical trial in history on a new treatment.
And I would say that it's been shown to be
safe and effective by any
stretch of the imagination. And this comes on the heels
of testimony from the CD CS director who told federal
lawmakers late last year that COVID remains the biggest health
threat. COVID is still the respiratory virus that is putting
the most number of folks in the hospital and and
taking their lives.
According to the most recent data from the CDC,
there were nearly 30,000 hospitalizations during the week ending December
23rd.
That's the 7th consecutive week of increases and the most
since last January.
However, vaccine popularity is on the decline.
Even with those rise in vaccine in infection numbers,
only about 14% of adults in Florida have received the
latest booster mark right.
Aaron best mark tonight reporting in our news from Erin.
Thanks.