A top Florida health official is urging the U.S. government to rescind its COVID-19 vaccine mandate as an increasing number of vaccinated people, including President Joe Biden, contract COVID-19.
“The President’s diagnosis confirms the science: although the COVID-19 vaccine reduces the risk of hospitalization, it does not prevent transmission or symptomatic disease,” Simone Marstiller, secretary of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, said on July 25.
“In fact, based on published reports by the U.K. Government, the risk reduction attributed for the vaccine significantly decreases within two months of receiving a booster. Despite these incontrovertible facts, your agency continues to enforce its arbitrary ’emergency’ rule mandating that health care workers be vaccinated for COVID-19 or lose their jobs,” she added, writing to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)….