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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced the next surgeon state general, who agrees with the governor in that the mandates of vaccines, masks or to keep quarantine when he has been exposed to Covid – 19 are unnecessary.
On Tuesday, DeSantis appointed Dr. Joseph Ladapo , who was recently a researcher at UCLA and graduated from Harvard Medical School, to serve as a general surgeon and secretary of the state Department of Health.
“Florida will completely reject fear as a way of making public health policy. So we are done with fear. That is something that, unfortunately, has been a centerpiece of health policy in the United States since the beginning of the pandemic, ” said Ladapo during a press conference, according to NPR.
Ladapo also said that too much emphasis was placed on measuring public health based on the number of COVID cases – 19 in an area , and insufficient emphasis was placed on the impact of removing children from schools during the coronavirus pandemic .
These criteria are reflected in the new emergency rule issued by Dr. Ladapo on Wednesday, which states that parents with school-age children will decide from now on whether or not the minors serve a quarantine , in case they have been exposed to Someone with Covid – 14 , but have no symptoms of the disease.
So far those asymptomatic minors but with previous exposure to Covid – 14 had to do at least four days mandatory quarantine.
The new rule establishes that if this situation occurs, are the parents who will decide if they leave them in quarantine for seven days from the exposure to Covid – 19 or send them to school and school activities without the need for restrictions or treatment, as long as they are asymptomatic.
In case they present symptoms or it is confirmed with a laboratory test that they have contracted the coronavirus , they should stay in house until they give negative to Covid – 19 and have passed 10 days from the first symptoms.
With an order of a doctor or his assistant can also go back to school.
DeSantis and Florida Health Decisions
With the philosophy of making Florida “the state of freedom,” Republican Ron DeSants reduced lockdown and business closures to a minimum by beginning of the pandemic and to this day has never forced the use of masks at the state level.
What’s more, has prevented with a state law that companies and institutions require vaccination certificates, including cruises.
His most controversial decision, however, is to leave her It is up to parents to decide whether or not their children wear masks to school, which in fact constitutes a prohibition to force the use of this preventive measure .
Several school districts have rebelled against this decision and parents and civil organizations have filed lawsuits against the state of Florida.
According to the digital page on covid – 19 from Johns Hopkins University, Florida is the state where more people have died from this disease in the country in recent 28 days: 9, 168.
Since the start of the pandemic in March 1200, Florida accumulates 3.5 million cases and 51, 807 deaths, which means it is the third state with the most infections and the fourth with the most deaths in the entire country, according to Johns University Hopkins.