{"id":1524640,"date":"2022-06-20T18:05:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T22:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1524640"},"modified":"2022-06-20T18:05:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T22:05:11","slug":"desantis-says-white-house-lied-when-it-claimed-he-reversed-course-on-covid-19-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-says-white-house-lied-when-it-claimed-he-reversed-course-on-covid-19-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Says White House Lied When It Claimed He \u2018Reversed Course\u2019 on COVID-19 Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fdesantis-says-white-house-lied-when-it-claimed-he-reversed-course-on-covid-19-policy%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=1524640&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><\/div>\n<p><span>Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R.) said the White House and media outlets lied about Florida&#8217;s health policies when they claimed he &#8220;reversed course&#8221; by permitting health care providers to order COVID-19 vaccines for children under the age of five.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Not surprised the White House would lie, definitely not surprised that legacy media would amplify the lie because that\u2019s what they do,&#8221; DeSantis said during a Monday news conference.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>White House press secretary <\/span><span>Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday said that after &#8220;repeated failures&#8221; to order vaccines, DeSantis &#8220;reversed course&#8221; and decided to allow health care providers to order the shots for children between six months old and five. But <\/span><span>Florida surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLSurgeonGen\/status\/1537880886300946433\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> the state has always allowed providers to place orders for vaccines. DeSantis <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/grabien.com\/getmedia.php?id=1565789&#038;key=80e01c0724d92cf7ee06e4372c7374ff&#038;userid=19835\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> Thursday that Florida<\/span><span> discourages COVID vaccination for young children and would not place orders for the vaccine to be distributed to them, but the state would not block providers from acquiring it themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Doctors can get it. Hospitals can get it. But there&#8217;s not going to be any state programs that are going to be trying to get COVID jabs to infants and toddlers and newborns,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;That&#8217;s not where we&#8217;re going to be utilizing our resources.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Florida is the only state in the country that did not place advance orders for the pediatric vaccines, a position media outlets including <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nicholasreimann\/2022\/06\/17\/desantis-changes-mind-allows-florida-to-buy-covid-vaccines-for-kids-5-and-younger-report-says\/?sh=99365df3b836\"><i><span>Forbes<\/span><\/i><\/a><span>, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/florida-doctors-can-order-under-5-covid-shots-white-house-says\/\"><span>CBS News<\/span><\/a><span>, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/politics-government\/white-house\/article262630927.html\"><span>McClatchy DC<\/span><\/a> claimed DeSantis reversed after Jean-Pierre&#8217;s comments on Friday. <span>DeSantis<\/span><span>\u2019s approach to infant vaccination mirrors that of Scandinavian countries including <\/span><span>Sweden, which <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/sweden-decides-against-recommending-covid-vaccines-kids-aged-5-12-2022-01-27\/\"><span>decided<\/span><\/a><span> not to recommend vaccinating children under 11 due to the &#8220;low risk for serious disease for kids,&#8221; and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory\/denmark-officials-reason-give-covid-vaccines-82822229\"><span>Denmark<\/span><\/a><span> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.regjeringen.no\/en\/aktuelt\/vaccination-of-children-and-adolescents-against-covid-19\/id2895513\/\"><span>Norway<\/span><\/a>, which <span>do not offer vaccines to children under five.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Food and Drug Administration <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/madelinehalpert\/2022\/06\/17\/fda-authorizes-covid-vaccines-for-children-as-young-as-6-months\/?sh=36f3d2547e1c\"><span>approved<\/span><\/a><span> Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna\u2019s vaccines for children five and younger on Friday<\/span><span>, but <\/span><span>only 18 percent of parents are eager for their child under five to receive the vaccine, a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/coronavirus-covid-19\/poll-finding\/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-april-2022\/\"><span> Kaiser Family Foundation poll<\/span><\/a><span> showed. Less than a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/health\/cdc-advisers-back-covid-vaccines-for-children-under-age-5\"><span>third<\/span><\/a><span> of children ages 5-11 have received the vaccine since it became available to them in November.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R.) said the White House and media outlets lied about Florida&#8217;s health policies when they claimed he &#8220;reversed course&#8221; by permitting health care providers to order<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":835,"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-1524640","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\/1524640","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\/835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524640\/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=1524640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}