They [vaccines] reduce the risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19 … I don’t think the objective of public health is coercion. I think it’s education, and I think it’s to allow people to make choices, so they don’t feel coerced.

Joseph Ladapo

People need to be aware that if they're taking a benzodiazepine -- and a lot of patients are taking benzodiazepines -- and they're also prescribed an opioid, their risk of overdosing is much higher, our work shows that these patients [ taking benzodiazepines ], not only are they at higher risk of accidentally overdosing, but they are also more likely to be prescribed opioids. So they're higher risk and they're more likely to be exposed to the opioids in the first place.

I want you guys to step back for a moment from what you hear sort of constantly on TV and just, very briefly in terms of the data that supports mask use in kids and mandates for masks in kids, it is very weak and that's a fact.

This fantasy that the federal leadership has painted that you can somehow stop this pandemic by just doing more testing – I’m waiting for more people to realize, it’s completely failed, there now have been published papers showing that all of those shutdowns and all of those quarantines hurt kids. And that is a darn shame… That is unacceptable. And we’re stopping it here in Florida.

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