FL Surgeon General Announces Plan To Limit Testing

January 4, 2022 Coronavirus, Covidiots

Tampa’s CBS News reports:

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo said it’s time to stop “planning and living life” around COVID-19 testing.

Dr. Ladapo announced the state will be the first to emphasize “high-value” testing versus “low-value” testing through a new plan. He used the example of an elderly grandmother given more testing consideration over an 8-year-old third grader.

But doctors 10 Tampa Bay spoke with said ideally, anyone experiencing mild symptoms or have been exposed to COVID-19 should still be tested amid this latest surge from the omicron variant.

Mediaite reports:



CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner dinged controversial Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo on Monday night after Ladapo made some remarks about Covid-19 testing. Erin Burnett pointed out Ladapo’s comments reflect many people’s frustration with various Covid protocols. “Does he have a point?” she asked. “And if not, why?”  “No,” replied Reiner. “In fact, it’s hard to believe those comments came from the surgeon general of one of the largest states in this country.”

“And his words echo what the former president of the United States Donald Trump said in June of 2020 when he told a huge crowd in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that the downside to testing is that you find so many cases and then he told people to slow the testing down, please. The problem isn’t that testing is finding people who are fine. The problem is that we don’t have enough tests.”

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