Ron DeSantis: vaccinated hypocrite
2021: championed vaccination
2022: sought unvaccinated voters
see also: www.peakchoice.org/republican-pandemic.html
DeSantis, July 2021: "If you are vaccinated, fully vaccinated, the chance of you getting seriously ill or dying from COVID is effectively zero," he said. "If you look at the people that are being admitted to hospitals, over 95 percent of them are either not fully vaccinated or not vaccinated at all. And so these vaccines are saving lives. They are reducing mortality."
"The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."
– H.L. Mencken
"Ron DeSantis will destroy our democracy with deadly precision. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous he is."
- Ruth Ben-Ghiat
www.thebulwark.com/desantis-sucks-up-to-the-anti-vax-crowd/
www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/12/08/republicans-2022-election-results-coronavirus-00072565
A working paper by Yale researchers recently released by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that far more Republicans are likely dying of Covid than Democrats.
According to the study, which used data from Florida and Ohio counties, registered Republicans and Democrats died of Covid in equal numbers in 2020, but once vaccines became widely available in summer 2021, the number of Republican excess deaths nearly doubled those of Democrats. The disparity grew even wider during the winter of 2021.
Amid skepticism by Trump and other conservative elites, fewer Republicans chose to be vaccinated or to wear masks in public spaces, and the consequences have sometimes been fatal.
These "selection effects" — Republican death rates and Democrats' more even geographic distribution — may help swing other extraordinarily tight electoral districts and states, particularly when turnout increases in 2024.
Republicans' long Covid may well endure.
DeSantis falsely says bivalent booster vaccine increases chances of COVID infection
"They were not following the science," DeSantis said at a Jan. 17 news conference in Panama City Beach. "Almost every study now has said with these new boosters, you're more likely to get infected with the bivalent booster."
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The governor's press office responded to PolitiFact's inquiry about the claim shortly after publication, citing two articles and three studies, two of which are not yet peer-reviewed. The most recent came from the Cleveland Clinic and was discussed in an opinion article in The Wall Street Journal.
Nabin Shrestha, an infectious disease physician and one of the study's authors, told PolitiFact that the data did not find a link between the bivalent shot and a higher risk of contracting COVID-19. The early conclusion was the opposite of what DeSantis said: The dose is, in fact, effective in preventing infection.
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DeSantis' "statement is incorrect," Najera said. "That conclusion cannot be drawn from that study, and the authors state that it is not designed to evaluate that association."
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