{"id":1005030,"date":"2021-11-12T21:14:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T02:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1005030"},"modified":"2021-11-12T21:14:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T02:14:04","slug":"exclusive-florida-surgeon-general-ladapo-strikes-back-after-rachel-maddow-smear-factually-incorrect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-florida-surgeon-general-ladapo-strikes-back-after-rachel-maddow-smear-factually-incorrect\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive &#8212; Florida Surgeon General Ladapo Strikes Back After Rachel Maddow Smear: &#039;Factually Incorrect&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-florida-surgeon-general-ladapo-strikes-back-after-rachel-maddow-smear-factually-incorrect%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1005030&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Rachel-Maddow-Crying-No-Chyron-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Florida\u2019s Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, is striking back after MSNBC host Rachel Maddow made a series of egregious claims during Monday\u2019s segment of <em>The Rachel Maddow Show<\/em>, squarely targeting the doctor, who has risen to the spotlight for speaking out against coronavirus mandates and the left\u2019s maiming of critics of their narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Maddow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/transcripts\/transcript-rachel-maddow-show-11-8-21-n1283551\">devoted<\/a>&nbsp;a lengthy segment as part of a greater attempt to deconstruct critics of the Biden administration\u2019s coronavirus response, including Ladapo, a clinical researcher, physician, and surgeon general of Florida. She took particular issue with Ladapo\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/24\/study-surgical-and-cloth-masks-filter-roughly-10-efficient-at-blocking-aerosols\/\">science-based<\/a> position that masks are not a particularly effective way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/25\/ron-desantis-blasts-mask-mandates-experts-acknowledge-piece-cloth-not-going-stop-aerosols\/\">prevent<\/a> the spread of the virus and criticized the official for highlighting the concerns of people who are still hesitant about the vaccines, including immediate adverse effects and longterm side effects, the latter of which remain largely unknown.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a concerted effort to prevent these types of stories, these experiences from receiving the attention that they obviously should receive,\u201d the surgeon general said, sparking a series of smug remarks from the MSNBC host, who also took issue with his association with the group America\u2019s Frontline Doctors, speaking at one of their events in July 2020.<\/p>\n<p>However, the crux of her segment centered around anonymous sources who questioned Ladapo\u2019s history of treating coronavirus patients. Maddow\u2019s researchers claimed to talk to \u201cmultiple people\u201d who worked at UCLA hospital, where Ladapo worked for five years, and said they did not believe the surgeon general worked on coronavirus patients.<\/p>\n<p>Maddow claimed:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p>And four of these sources tell us that before that press conference he took part in on the steps of the Supreme Court in July of 2020, in which he billed himself as one of America`s Frontline Doctors, four sources who alongside him at UCLA tell us they do not believe Dr. Ladapo had actually treated COVID patients at all at UCLA when he stood up there and called himself a frontline doctor. They also say his numerous op-eds greatly mischaracterized the type of work he was doing during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking exclusively with Breitbart News, Ladapo addressed Maddow\u2019s claim, emphasizing that he primarily does research and \u201cnever\u201d claimed to be a frontline doctor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be crazy, because I\u2019m not a frontline doctor. I take care of patients in the hospital. But that\u2019s a minority of my role. And the same thing here at the University of Florida. I primarily do clinical research and I have tremendous appreciation for my colleagues who are frontline doctors. But that\u2019s not my role. So my role is that, in addition to clinic research, I\u2019ve taken care of patients in the hospital, first in New York, then in Los Angeles, and I work with residents and medical students, so there\u2019s a teaching component also. And that\u2019s what I do. I\u2019m attending the team. I\u2019m board certified. And it\u2019s work that I enjoy doing,\u201d he said before addressing Maddow\u2019s claims that he had never worked with coronavirus patients \u2014 a claim he said is demonstratively false.<\/p>\n<p>One of the Maddow\u2019s sources, who was part of a team taking care of coronavirus patients at the beginning of the pandemic, said Ladapo was not part of that particular team, although there were two separate groups \u2014 &nbsp;\u201cgeneral medicine and ICU, plus a volunteer program to take care of COVID-19 patients.\u201d The source claimed Ladapo was part of neither.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She also cited scheduling documents spanning from June 2019 to September 2021, claiming that none pointed to Ladapo as scheduled to treat coronavirus patients, specifically. She cited other anonymous sources who claimed they were glad Ladapo was no longer at UCLA because they were \u201cembarrassed by his opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, we don\u2019t wish this on the people of Florida. They don`t deserve to have something like him making their health decisions,\u201d the unnamed source said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Overall, Maddow attempted to make it sound as if Ladapo lied about his work over the last 10 years. Another hostile-sounding anonymous source described Ladapo as a \u201cright wing media darling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her series of assertions, however, are grossly lacking proper context, as Ladapo did, in fact, treat coronavirus patients prior to the UCLA ward being created. In January 2021, they dissolved the ward, sending both non-coronavirus patients, as well as coronavirus patients, to the normal teams, on which he served. Essentially, from January to August, he received any patient assigned to him, and that included coronavirus patients.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI was taking care of patients with COVID-19 when I was working in the hospital in March, and this is before the COVID-19 team treatment team was established,\u201d Ladapo told Breitbart News. \u201cSo I was taking care of patients when I was working in the hospital that week and then I actually volunteered to be on the COVID-19 team.&nbsp;There\u2019s documentation of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, while Ladapo had to rescind his offer due to scheduling conflicts with his children and picking them up for school, he volunteered again \u201cjust to help out\u201d in November 2020, working \u201cspecifically with COVID patients,\u201d he told Breitbart News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then when the team was dissolved, the COVID-19 team was dissolved in January 2021, patients with COVID came to all the medical teams. So I had those patients when they came to the hospital from the emergency department. They came directly to my team,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSo it was strange to kind of see the story because it\u2019s factually incorrect,\u201d he said, describing the segment as nothing more than attempt to discredit someone whose career has been based on credibility \u201cboth clinically and in research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd they\u2019re sort of trying to make people believe something else than what is actually true about me and my career,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News also spoke to one doctor who cares for coronavirus patients and is&nbsp;acquainted with Ladapo and his work in this area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a number of facilities and the system is spread across the Los Angeles Metropolitan area. \u2026 the idea that they managed to connect with a few random doctors who weren\u2019t familiar with him indicates to me that they just talked to the wrong people, because it\u2019s a huge system,\u201d he told Breitbart News, adding he has seen the patient logs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no doubt whatsoever that he has a substantial familiarity with the clinical needs of these patients, personal experience with it, and it doesn\u2019t surprise me at all that a few random people that were contacted were not personally familiar with his work,\u201d the doctor said, adding that there seems to be an innate instinct of \u201cpolitical correctness\u201d in the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s sort of an ingrained hostility to anybody who sort of steps out of line. So somebody like him who\u2019s willing to put himself out there and say things that are a little unorthodox really rubs the institutional people the wrong way. I think that\u2019s part of it too,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>When asked why he believes the establishment media is attempting to maim his credibility, Ladapo concluded that they are \u201cprobably unhappy\u201d with some of the messages he has communicated, \u201cparticularly the fact that I\u2019ve stayed close to the data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen complete politicization of the data during this pandemic and really people drawing conclusions from studies that are very far, sort of far removed from the actual data in those studies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s true for mask wearing, that\u2019s true for these lockdowns \u2014 &nbsp;the notion they were effective, and they really were ineffective\u201d and \u201charmful,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Since taking on the role as the Sunshine State\u2019s surgeon general, Ladapo has stood beside Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as the administration champions individual freedom over fear in the era of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re done with fear. It\u2019s been something that\u2019s been, unfortunately, a centerpiece of health policy in the United States ever since the beginning of the pandemic, and it\u2019s over here \u2014 expiration date is done,\u201d Ladapo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/21\/florida-surgeon-general-bashes-virus-hysteria-done-fear\/\">said<\/a> in September, adding that vaccines have been \u201ctreated almost like a religion\u201d among far-left U.S. health officials and the establishment media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s just senseless. There are lots of good pathways to health; vaccination is not the only one,\u201d he said. \u201cWe support measures for good health, vaccination, losing weight, eating more fruits and vegetables.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to respect human rights,\u201d he added at the time. \u201cPeople do have autonomy over their lives. It\u2019s not OK, it\u2019s not virtuous, and it\u2019s not right to just take away those rights from individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such positions have made Ladapo a target of the far left, likely prompting Maddow\u2019s problematic investigation. When asked if others in the medical community hold the same sentiments as himself but are remaining quiet over fears of attacks, Ladapo said that is \u201cdefinitely\u201d the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh definitely. That\u2019s definitely the case.&nbsp;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>I\u2019ve had many people confide in me privately that they support the messages and the work I\u2019ve done and they really appreciate it and they said they \u2014 I\u2019ve had people tell me they don\u2019t feel comfortable being outspoken because they don\u2019t want the negative attention or they\u2019re worried about their job, or they have other concerns,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people have stepped up anyway, which I\u2019m always happy to see,\u201d he added. \u201cBut there\u2019s this tremendous pressure right now for people to basically fall in line.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, is striking back after MSNBC host Rachel Maddow made a series of egregious claims during Monday\u2019s segment of The Rachel Maddow Show, squarely targeting the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}