Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, left, speaks during a press conference at Broward Health Medical Center on Jan. 3, 2022, as Governor Ron DeSantis, right, listens. - José A. Iglesias/Miami Herald/TNS
As the coronavirus pandemic begins its fourth year, albeit less severe than its first three years, Florida has been at the forefront of the national conversation about masks, vaccines and quarantines. How the state has fared under the virus that’s killed millions worldwide — and more than 87,000 people in Florida — is largely due to the rules and recommendations that Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo and the Florida Department of Health, under Ladapo’s purview, have instituted. While DeSantis appointed Ladapo in September 2021 — 19 months into the pandemic, and he wa...
