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MSNBC host calls it ‘a tough sell’ to convince Floridians to shelter with unvaccinated

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By Jenny Goldsberry

Amidst Hurricane Ida raging in the Gulf of Mexico, MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan admitted he would not shelter from it in with unvaccinated Floridians. Hasan invited Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL) on his show Sunday to ask him how he makes such “a tough sell.”

“As a public official, I’d imagine one of the biggest challenges when a storm approaches is convincing folks that they are better off evacuating, leaving, going to a shelter even, than riding out a storm,” Hasan said. “And yet, during COVID, with Florida’s vaccination rates where they are, that’s got to be a tough sell. I’m not sure I would want my family in a shelter with an unknown number of unvaccinated people right now.”

“Well no kidding Mehdi,” Crist said. “And the fact of the matter is the hospitals in Florida are overwhelmed. We’re number one in the country in hospitalizations, in cases, and sadly in deaths.”

Meanwhile, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis pleaded with Floridians to get the vaccine during a press conference last month. “They are reducing mortality,” DeSantis said. “So we’re proud in Florida that we put seniors first on that list because they were the most vulnerable,” the governor said. “We have 85 percent of our seniors that are vaccinated and about 75 percent of folks over the age of 50.”

Meanwhile DeSantis has kept his word that Florida got it right and the lockdown states got it wrong. “We have no mandate,” he said. “We’ve provided information to people and we’ve been very honest about any data that comes out.”

However Crist, who was also Governor for Florida from 2007-2011, says that DeSantis got it wrong, nicknaming him “wRONg DeSantis.” In a tweet, he accused the current governor of ignoring experts and science. Crist also suggested that DeSantis could do more to promote vaccines, as he hasn’t posted on social media about them.

You can follow Jenny Goldsberry on Twitter @jennyjournalism.

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Former Harvard medical professor says he was fired for opposing Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates

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“My hope is that someday, Harvard will find its way back to academic freedom and independence.” That is the heartfelt message from Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a former Harvard University professor of medicine since 2003, who recently announced publicly he was fired for “clinging to the truth” in his opposition to Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

Kulldorff posted the news on social media alongside an essay published in the City Journal last week. The epidemiologist and biostatistician also spoke with National Review about the incident. Kulldorff says he was fired by the Harvard-affiliated Mass General Brigham hospital system and put on a leave of absence by Harvard Medical School in November 2021 over his stance on Covid.

Nearly two years later, in October 2023, his leave of absence was terminated as a matter of policy, marking the end of his time at the university. Harvard severed ties with Kulldorff “all on their initiative,” he said.

The history of the medical professional’s public stance on Covid-19 vaccines and mandates is detailed by National Review:

Censorship and rejection led Kulldorff to co-author the Great Barrington Declaration in October 2020 alongside Dr. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University. Together, the three public-health scientists argued for limited and targeted Covid-19 restrictions that “protect the elderly, while letting children and young adults live close to normal lives,” as Kulldorff put it in his essay.

“The declaration made clear that no scientific consensus existed for school closures and many other lockdown measures. In response, though, the attacks intensified—and even grew slanderous,” he wrote, naming former National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins as the one who ordered a “devastating published takedown” of the declaration.

Testifying before Congress in January, Collins reaffirmed his previous statements attacking the Great Barrington Declaration.

Despite the coordinated effort against it, the document has over 939,000 signatures in favor of age-based focused protection.

The Great Barrington Declaration’s authors, who advocated the quick reopening of schools, have been vindicated by recent studies that confirm pandemic-era school closures were, in fact, detrimental to student learning. The data show that students from third through eighth grade who spent most of the 2020–21 school year in remote learning fell more than half a grade behind in math scores on average, while those who attended school in person dropped a little over a third of a grade, according to a New York Times review of existing studies. In addition to learning losses, school closures did very little to stop the spread of Covid, studies show.

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