GOV. RON DESANTIS HOLDS PUBLIC HEALTH ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION IN TALLAHASSEE

Governor Ron DeSantis held a roundtable on April 12, 2021 with renowned doctors and epidemiologists to discuss Big Tech censorship and the COVID-19 pandemic. April’s meeting follows the recent decision by Google to remove video footage of a previous roundtable the Governor held with these experts from its video-sharing platform, YouTube.

“YouTube’s decision to remove the video of our previous roundtable is just another example of unabashed overreach and bias by Big Tech,” said Governor DeSantis. “Silicon Valley and the corporate media have drawn a line in the sand: they don’t care about the facts. They only care about pushing their agenda and will do so by whatever means necessary, the truth be damned. That’s why we are taking action here in Florida to hold Big Tech accountable and call out their hypocrisy.”

The following individuals participated in the roundtable with Governor DeSantis:

• Dr. Scott W. Atlas, MD, Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University
• Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
• Dr. Martin Kulldorff, PhD, biostatistician, epidemiologist, and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
• Professor Sunetra Gupta, infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
  

The governor asked the experts how they felt about different elements of the pandemic response, in which they answer the following questions:

• Do lockdowns work?
  
• What about the use of contact tracing?
  
• Should schools be open?
  
• Do masks work?
  
• Are vaccine passports a good idea?
  
• What does the CDC say?