Florida's new surgeon general: Data do not support mask mandates in school
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Florida's new surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, argued that the data does not support mask mandates in schools to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and he insisted that parents, not school boards or governors, should make the decision whether or not their children wear masks to school.
Ladapo, whom DeSantis appointed in September after the former surgeon general resigned, said that "there is a substantial gap between the quality of the data out there supporting masking kids yielding any benefit for kids whatsoever, factual, and what we're hearing from some of our public health leadership in other states and nationally."
"In Florida, we're going to stay close to the data," the surgeon general, who graduated from Harvard Medical School, declared. "And the data do not support any clinical benefit for children in schools with mask mandates. The highest quality data find no evidence of benefit, and we're going to stick with that because that's what the data show."