- The Washington Times - Tuesday, October 21, 2025

One of America’s core individual freedoms — and not just freedom, but right — is the one about choosing which medical treatments to take and which medical treatments to refuse. All that was thrown out during COVID years. And as Dr. Joseph Ladapo, surgeon general of Florida says, there’s much to worry about when government mandates medical treatments for citizens — without first having done the proper due diligence to ensure those medical treatments are safe and effective.

Too many Americans face uncertain futures now, thanks to the problems that are surfacing with the COVID shots.



“There’s increasing risk of people having strokes, people having blood clots in their lungs, people certainly having heart problems … and autoimmune conditions and in addition neurological conditions, some of which can be extremely devastating,” Ladapo said.

Ladapo was so alarmed at the state of America during the tyrannical COVID years, he wrote the book, “Transcend Fear: A Blueprint for Mindful Leadership in Public Health.”

And what’s needed now in America is a cooler head, calmer look and more constitutional approach to how health care is delivered, he said.

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