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Apr 27, 2023 · Politics. Covid-19. How Ron DeSantis transformed into an anti-public health crusader. DeSantis’s surgeon general is accused of manipulating data to justify an anti-vaccine agenda. How...
Aug 13, 2021 · How Ron DeSantis’s Covid response became the model of what not to do. “These waves are just something you have to deal with.”. DeSantis speaks at at event on August 5. It wasn’t that long ...
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Apr 9, 2021 · April 9, 2021, 12:07 PM PDT. By Corky Siemaszko. Video of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and a panel of scientists apparently trading in Covid-19 misinformation has been pulled from YouTube.
- Florida's Early Lockdown resembled Those in Much of U.S.
- Desantis and Minority of State Chief Executives Opposed Mask Mandates
- Florida Reopened Aggressively, Along with Other Republican States
- Desantis Was One of First Governors to Ban Vaccine Mandates
- Despite Trump's Claims, Florida Deaths Look Better Than U.S. Average
DeSantis declared a state of emergency on COVID in Florida before the U.S. had declared its state of emergency. He closed schools in the early weeks of the pandemic just as all 49 other states did; in fact, Florida schools closed to in-person instructiona couple of days before New York schools did. By March 16, 2020, when about 6,000 cases of COVID...
On mask mandates, DeSantis was in the minority as one of 11 state chief executiveswho resisted imposing the strategy at any point during the COVID pandemic after the CDC started recommending that people wear masks outside their houses in April 2020. Still, local governments in Miami, Orlando, and other big Florida cities leaned on the policy to try...
DeSantis wasn't the first governor to risk reopening businesses, but he was one of the Republican governors who moved more quickly to do so than health experts recommended at the time. By April 16, 2020, the Trump administration had released a reopening plan for states that advocated unwinding mitigation measures in stages as cases and deaths decre...
When COVID vaccines were first released, DeSantis, like many other governors, trumpeted their arrival. As Trump's term was coming to an end after he was defeated in the 2020 election, the Florida governor attended a White House summit on the vaccines that were about to receive emergency use authorization from the FDA. A couple of weeks before Chris...
Trump fired back at DeSantis, posting on Truth Social that "Florida was the third WORST State in Deaths by Covid." In terms of total death toll, Florida does come in third, after states who also have the largest populations in the nation — California and Texas — according to a New York Times count. But by a metric researchers rely on to compare sta...
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May 26, 2023 · Now a social media video from a pro-Trump political action committee, MAGA Inc., shows clips of DeSantis speaking in favor of lockdowns, vaccinations and following guidance from the U.S....
Sep 22, 2023 · DeSantis delivered Covid booster warning as Florida led the nation in hospitalizations. By Arek Sarkissian | September 21, 2023 08:00 AM. “Covid restrictions have gone from a dominant issue...
Jan 17, 2024 · During the CNN town hall on Tuesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized former President Donald Trump’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and accused him of “turning over the government”...
