Vaccines work
To the editor:
Ron DeSantis, Joe Ladapo and Florida Republicans both at state and local level are destroying your family’s health.
Gov. DeSantis and Surgeon General Ladapo are abolishing school vaccination programs.
If Republicans have their way, the risk of deadly contagious diseases such as polio will turn the Free State of Florida into the Disease State of Florida.
The Republicans are not happy with the medical information from the University of Florida and other medical research centers showing that the COVID-19 vaccine helps cancer patients.
Currently, people with cancer who have received the mRNA shots before starting drugs designed to unleash the immune system against tumors lived significantly longer than those who did not get vaccinated. This information is from a research team at the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress which suggests that the vaccines boost the immune system, making even stubborn tumors more susceptible to treatment.
Vaccines work. A simple vaccine awakens a patient’s immune response to better fight their disease.
Science says Florida Republicans are wrong.
Ray Allen
Fort Myers