"I live in a red state and this breaks my heart." That was the reaction from one health policy expert when discussing an announcement in Florida that vaccine mandates would be nixed in the state.
Former United States Surgeon General Jerome Adams, who was appointed by the president during his first term in office, appeared on MSNBC on Sunday to talk about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent purge at the CDC. After that analysis, he was asked about events unfolding in Florida.
"This is not going to play out well," Adams said of the decision to ban vaccine mandates. "This is going to go poorly."
Adams went on to say that DeSantis would be known as the governor who killed vaccines.
" Ron DeSantis is going to own this," he said, decrying the "troubling shift toward anti-science policymaking."
"We've see the largest measles outbreak in three decades," he added, noting that 50,000 Americans died from Covid last year. He also expressed concerns that these policies could cause "polio to come back."
