Florida surgeon general calls on feds to help the 'vaccine injured'

In speech in Tampa, Joseph Ladapo calls for more research into the effect of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

Florida’s top health official blasted the manufacturer’s of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and wants the federal government to do more to help those he described as the “vaccine injured.”

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo described the vaccines manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna as “not fit for human use.” He also called on the federal government and the National Institute of Health to expand its research on long COVID to include people who had experienced adverse effects from either COVID-19 shots or boosters.

“We need to study this better,” he said. “We need to fund physicians who are caring for these patients clinically and who are doing scientific work in this area.”

Ladapo also praised Health and Humans Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision in May to remove the COVID-19 vaccine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention immunization schedule for pregnant women and healthy children.

He did not mention that the federal government tweaked that guidance days later making the vaccine available for children six months and up in consultation with their pediatrician.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2025/07/18/florida-surgeon-general-calls-feds-help-vaccine-injured/