In January, the grand jury went to work looking for dark intent or false claims behind the lifesaving vaccines. “It is against the law to mislead and misrepresent, particularly when you’re talking about the efficacy of a drug,” DeSantis said, comparing the vaccine push to the profiteering that drove the deadly opioid epidemic. On December 13, almost exactly two years after the FedEx delivery, he petitioned the Florida Supreme Court to let him empanel a statewide grand jury to investigate COVID-19 vaccine makers, particularly Pfizer and Moderna. “Today, we will have shots going in arms,” he proudly declared.Īt the time, Republicans across the country were eager to share credit for a singular feat in President Donald Trump’s otherwise disastrous handling of the pandemic: the record-speed development of COVID-19 vaccines that offered hope of a return to normal life.īy the end of last year, however, DeSantis’s vaccine cheerleading was a distant memory. With a flourish, DeSantis signed the FedEx manifest. The truck carried precious cargo: boxes of the very first COVID-19 vaccines. On December 14, 2020, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, wearing a mask, watched expectantly as a FedEx truck backed up to a loading dock at Tampa General Hospital. Playing politics via dangerous anti-public health messaging… In a strong, lengthy piece Katherine Eban writes that has decided his ticket to the White House in '24 is going all-out #antivax - on all vaccines.
We all had a good laugh over DeSantis’s recent ‘ Assigned Floridian at birth, Identifies as a Rust Belter‘ claims, but this is no joke.
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