Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has criticized the federal government’s handling of Johnson & Johnson’s Chinese Communist Virus (COVID-19) vaccine as a huge mistake that has caused confidence in the vaccine to plummet.
DeSantis said at a news conference on Friday (April 16), “We didn’t have the help of these public health people, particularly the federal government public health people, in this regard. I mean, the way they handled Johnson & Johnson (vaccines) was a huge mistake.”
The Republican governor criticized that the Biden administration’s approach has led to a serious decline in confidence in vaccines.
DeSantis noted that if one looks at what people think of Johnson & Johnson vaccines now, they will see that positive perceptions have plummeted.
DeSantis went on to criticize the Biden administration for also mishandling the issue of continued social distance and the wearing of masks. He said, “I also think it’s a problem: You tell people to get vaccinated, yet people who have been vaccinated for months are wearing two masks …… I also can’t face up to the fact that if the vaccine works, why do you need to wear two masks? It doesn’t make sense. So I think the messaging in this case has been horrible.”
DeSantis noted that his point was, “If you’re vaccinated and the vaccine is effective, you’re immune, so act immune.”
DeSantis appears to be referring to the decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to suspend the use of Johnson & Johnson vaccines. With six reported cases of rare blood clots following Johnson & Johnson vaccination, both the CDC and FDA recommended suspending the vaccine, although they did not link the symptoms of blood clots to vaccination. But both agencies said the move was “out of an abundance of caution.
At the time of the agencies’ announcement, more than 6.8 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine had been administered in the United States.
Similar cases have been reported not only with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, but also with a vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, where many people have developed blood clots after receiving the vaccine. A number of countries have now announced a moratorium on the use of the vaccine. It appears that to avoid further adverse effects, the EU has now renamed the vaccine to Vaxzevria vaccine.
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