narrative. listen, we re not trying to find documents to promote a narrative, we re trying to figure out if the guy was telling there truth. and the thing is, we did try very hard to get hold of any documents that would prove that dr.do ladapo treated covid patients at ucla particularly given the word from other doctors who actually did treat patients at ucla that he was never among them and they never saw him. we havene tried to find documen that would indicatewe that dr. ladapo did treat patients at ucla. we cannot find any such documents. nor the florida department of public healths a provided such documents in response to ouric requests. and ind all of the existing records that we can find, indicate lots and lots of other doctors treating covid patients at ucla s hospital but not him. one other thing to know about dr. ladapo is he has not actually yet been confirmed in this post as florida s surgeon general. governor desantis put him up for
and i would be happy to answer any specific scientific question that you have, related to vaccines and covid-19. inscientifically, do vaccine do thefi vaccines work against preventing covid-19? yes or no? recognized. thank you, again, senator. you know, yes or no questions are not that easy to find in science. that s the democratic leader of the florida state senate, senator lauren book struggling valiantly to try to get an answer outva of governor ron desantis s hand picked attorney general for the state of florida and colleagues walked out of the hearing and they were fed up with dr. ladapo s refusal to offer any answers to any questions.
surgeon general of florida, dr. ladapo has done press conferences with governor desantis where he has ominously questioned the safety of the vaccines essentially encouraging people theyva shouldn t get the because they re so dangerous. he earned himself a brief moment of notoriety in the press for refusing to personally himself wear a mask while he was in a meeting with the state senator who had just been diagnosed with cancer. she asked him to please put on a mask because of her serious medical condition. he refused. one of the ways dr. ladapo rose to prominence in media circles and the top position governor desantis put him in was in large part on the p basis of him stakg his credibility on being a front line doctor. in his conservative media appearance, in his op-eds, he presented himself as a front line prdoctor, who spent time aa
over. a week ago, the daily beast summed itov up with this accura headline. ron desantis opens antibody centershe that are useless agait omicron. and governor desantis s surge general joseph ladapo has chimed in, too we should not listen to people labeled as experts on these matters. he said he will personally those antibody treatments only patients with omicron even though they are proven not to work against omicron. because it worked so well with hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin and i don t know what the antidote is for sex demons but i m sure we have nipped that in the bud too: florida is insists as a state government they will do nothing to mitigate the spread of covid whatsoever and worst than that, they will continue to spread doubt and misinformation about vaccines andou masks but they also insis
was not scheduled to take care of covid patients at all. we contacted the florida department of healthhe seeking comment from dr. ladapo multiple times when we first aired this reporting and never heard back andis reached out again this we and press secretary for the florida department of health calling our request for comment quote cute, that was an actual quote, thanks for reaching out to ask about this unsubstantiatedab conspiracy theory. it s cute thatsu you re asking r comment. this is a state government. we then also heard from the communications director at floridaea department of health. he confirmed that dr. ladapo did not treat covid patients during much of 2020 when ucla was running a covid board but claimedru that he must have treated patients prior to and period, i m sure you can find documents thataf prove that if you re finding other documents to promote your