https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/desantis-covid-vaccine-manufacturers/index.html
“We will answer this question. It is a question that I am sure keeps the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna up late at night, hoping no one ever looks. But we’re going to look here in Florida,” Ladapo said during the roundtable.

Cases of myocarditis and pericarditis, inflammation of the heart and heart lining, are rare after mRNA vaccines, although they are more likely to occur among young men. The risk of heart inflammation is far greater from Covid-19 than from vaccination.

Following large clinical trials, the FDA authorized the shots for use in people 6 months and older, and CDC continues to recommend them. Experts and government agencies say the benefits far outweigh the risks as the vaccines dramatically reduce the risk of hospitalization or death from Covid-19.

An analysis released Tuesday by the Commonwealth Fund and the Yale School of Public Health estimated Covid-19 vaccines prevented more than 3.2 million deaths and 18.5 million hospitalizations in the United States and saved more than $1.15 trillion in medical costs.

DeSantis has frequently touted his decision to avoid the restrictions that many other states implemented in the early months of the pandemic.

“I kept this state open and I kept the state free, and we now have the biggest budget surplus in the history of Florida,” he said in an October debate against Democratic challenger Charlie Crist.

Early in the pandemic, DeSantis had advocated the need for vaccines. But his message has changed since mid-2021 – a shift that coincides with skepticism among conservatives who have at times booed or chided Trump for touting vaccines.

DeSantis last year moved to block cruise lines departing from Florida from requiring their customers to be vaccinated, and to block municipalities from imposing vaccine mandates. In June, DeSantis touted Florida’s status as the only state not to preorder vaccines for children younger than 5.