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‘Vaccines are saving lives’: DeSantis stresses importance of shots as Florida COVID cases spike, criticizes mask mandates
WFLA 8 Tampa ^ | Melanie Michael

Posted on 07/21/2021 4:13:41 PM PDT by semimojo

Gov. Ron DeSantis was in St. Petersburg to discuss red tide on Wednesday, but took time to answer questions and address Florida’s recent spike in coronavirus cases and stress the importance of the COVID vaccine.

“Here’s, I think, the most important thing with the data: if you are vaccinated, fully vaccinated, the chance of you getting seriously ill or dying from COVID is effectively zero,” DeSantis said. “If you look at the people who are being admitted to hospitals, over 95 percent of them are either not fully vaccinated or not vaccinated at all. These vaccines are saving lives. They are reducing mortality.”

The governor said he’s been urging people to get vaccinated for months because of what he called the “summer season.”...

While DeSantis stressed the importance and efficacy of the vaccine, he also warned against government officials pushing vaccination too hard.

“They have different reasons for why they don’t take it and I think the more they’re hectored by government officials or some of these folks – that is not going to get them to ‘yes.’ I can tell you that right now,” he said. “I think these are folks that have skepticism of authorities. I think they have different reasons why they may not do it. I don’t think most of them think COVID is a hoax or anything. I think they understand.”

(Excerpt) Read more at wfla.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: covid19; vaccination; vaccines
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

Stroke

But covid or vaccination was never once uttered by anyone


41 posted on 07/21/2021 4:46:29 PM PDT by digger48
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To: semimojo

He’s destroying his political career, out there stumping for the Jab of the Beast. I AIN’T TAKING IT, and there are MILLIONS with me.


42 posted on 07/21/2021 4:46:56 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: ducttape45

BLOOD will run in the streets when they try to force that Devil’s Brew on us. We WON’T COMPLY!


43 posted on 07/21/2021 4:47:50 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: semimojo

Yep...


44 posted on 07/21/2021 4:47:56 PM PDT by Osage Orange (DRT)
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To: goodnesswins

saw an article a couple of days ago about desantis talking with border patrol in texas and discovering around 70% of the invaders crossing the border are headed to florida...


45 posted on 07/21/2021 4:49:09 PM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: Artemis Webb

Be kind, its just a slight rounding error.


46 posted on 07/21/2021 4:50:36 PM PDT by crusher2013
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To: nutmeg

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47 posted on 07/21/2021 4:51:51 PM PDT by nutmeg (God bless you and thank you, Rush)
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To: rovenstinez
No questions asked...they said she died of diabetes?


48 posted on 07/21/2021 4:53:56 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (“Fraud vitiates everything.” )
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To: semimojo

Problem is, you aren’t competent to decide who is competent.


49 posted on 07/21/2021 4:54:35 PM PDT by dforest (huh)
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To: mewzilla

He’s trusting advisors which is never a safe bet as we know with Trump. The people around politicians seem to somehow convince them that they know everything about a particular subject so the pols trust them. Might be ok for a dem to do that but not a repub. They need to wake up to the fact that the left has been worming their way into the bureaucracy for decades and that none of them can be trusted.


50 posted on 07/21/2021 4:55:21 PM PDT by Pollard
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To: Osage Orange

If the jab was so damned important to survive why are they vaxxing all the incoming illegals? Shipping and dumping them all over? Why? Not to mention the other 163 other diseases they are bringing in from the 3rd world countries.


51 posted on 07/21/2021 4:55:30 PM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: Wallace T.

I knew DeSantis was too good to be true.


52 posted on 07/21/2021 4:56:17 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: dfwgator

We know far more now than President Trump did!


53 posted on 07/21/2021 4:57:13 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: dforest
Problem is, you aren’t competent to decide who is competent.

OK. I'll be more specific.

Show me someone who's been ruled dead from the vaccine by an attending physician, an ME, a coroner, the CDC or the FDA.

54 posted on 07/21/2021 4:58:13 PM PDT by semimojo
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To: semimojo

What planet you from!?


55 posted on 07/21/2021 4:58:49 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: semimojo
In the US we have 600K deaths attributed to the virus by the CDC and zero deaths attributed to the vaccine.

If the CDC has attributed zero deaths to the vaccine, then Empirical data must be against their religion.

56 posted on 07/21/2021 4:58:53 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: dfwgator

In the case of Trump, his statements were largely from last year or early 2021, before evidence came out about the numerous deaths and serious illnesses caused by the “vaccines”. Trump was also at the disadvantage of being surrounded by Deep State operatives who blocked his access to news sources outside of Fox and the liberal networks.


57 posted on 07/21/2021 4:59:27 PM PDT by Wallace T. ( )
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To: one guy in new jersey

The Hippocratic Oath has broken down and fallen apart.

Absolutely correct. I’m 77, my wife 74. We are part of the control group in THE EXPERIMENT. My wife went to the doctor to get a prescription renewed and asked the physician what he would prescribe if she got the virus. He said nothing. She told him that would be irresponsible and malpractice. We are looking for a new family practitioner.


58 posted on 07/21/2021 4:59:33 PM PDT by waredbird
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To: oldasrocks

If the jab was so damned important to survive why are they vaxxing all the incoming illegals?......They ain’t!!!!


59 posted on 07/21/2021 4:59:45 PM PDT by Osage Orange (DRT)
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To: dforest

On a scale of 1-retarded, that guy is off the charts.


60 posted on 07/21/2021 5:00:23 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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