{"id":49596,"date":"2022-06-20T13:22:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49596"},"modified":"2022-06-21T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T16:23:09","slug":"desantis-escalates-feud-with-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49596","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis escalates feud with White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is escalating his feud with the White House over the COVID-19 response as he positions himself for a possible presidential campaign in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis has been taking heat from infectious diseases experts \u2014 as well as state and national Democrats \u2014 for his decision not to preorder from the federal government COVID-19 vaccines for infants and young kids.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe state of Florida intentionally missed multiple deadlines to order vaccines to protect its youngest kids,\u201d White House coronavirus response coordinator\u00a0Ashish Jha\u00a0told reporters Friday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The White House initially made 10 million vaccines for young children available for states to preorder.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Having a small stockpile of doses on hand meant shots can start being administered as early as June 20, if states were able to distribute them quickly enough.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Florida was the only state that decided not to place an order.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>No middleman:\u00a0<\/strong>The argument from state officials was twofold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to DeSantis, kids aren\u2019t at risk of getting seriously sick. The state\u2019s not going to expend resources on something that isn\u2019t needed.<\/li>\n<li>The Health Department said they\u2019re not going to be the Biden administration\u2019s warehouse for unused vaccines. If a pediatrician\u2019s office or hospital wants the shots, they can place an order through the official state website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Picking fights:\u00a0<\/strong>DeSantis has spent much of the pandemic attacking the Biden administration\u2019s COVID-19 mitigation efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Sunshine State\u2019s governor has made it a point of pride to question and challenge a range of\u00a0federal guidance, repeatedly promoting the \u201cfreedom\u201d of a state without policies such as mask or vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49597,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49596\/revisions\/49597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}