The AAP reiterated its support for pediatric COVID-19 vaccination after Florida’s surgeon general said this week that the state would recommend against it.
At a COVID-19 roundtable, Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, said Florida would become the first state to recommend against COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children.
Ladapo was nominated for his position last year despite a history of skepticism about COVID-19 health measures.
Lisa Gwynn, DO, MBA, MSPH, FAAP, president of the AAP’s Florida chapter, called vaccines “our best hope for ending the pandemic” and said Ladapo’s