This online-only column is part of a series of shorter opinion essays by USA Today Network-Florida columnist Nate Monroe on the constant flow of outrageousness and shadiness in the Sunshine State.

And this year, when Ladapo advised doctors against giving out mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, medical experts refuted his claims. One of DeSantis’ top priorities this year was defeating a ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis began the dawn of the second Trump era by publicly lobbying for his surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, ...

But Florida's surgeon general – Joseph Ladapo – is doing just that with ... speculative professional guidance from Florida’s top doctor runs counter to proven historical and scientific ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis began the dawn of the second Trump era by publicly lobbying for his surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, to become the next leader of the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...

The order extends a previous one that bars State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo from taking any further ... her from getting the procedure that her doctors said was needed to extend her life ...

Ladapo also is being considered for a position such as U.S. surgeon general, the nation’s top doctor, according to the other person familiar with the process. That role does not require Senate ...