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# Florida Department of Health
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/florida-department-of-health/
- Published: 1999-01-02T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-02T15:42:43.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization

The **Florida Department of Health**, also called **Florida Health**, is a department of the Government of Florida responsible for administering public health services in the state. It is headquartered in Talahassee, Florida.

### History

On February 15, 2023, the department published a safety alert from the State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo warning of “a novel increase” in [adverse event](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Adverse-events-associated-with-COVID-19-vaccines) reports related to mRNA-based [COVID-19 vaccines](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/COVID-19-vaccine). The statement noted that, “\[i\]n Florida alone, there was a 1,700% increase in \[Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)\] reports after the release of the COVID-19 vaccine, compared to an increase of 400% in overall vaccine administration for the same time period.”[\[1\]](#fn1)

On May 10, 2023, Ladapo wrote to [Food and Drug Administration](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Food-and-Drug-Administration) Commissioner Robert Califf and [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Centers-for-Disease-Control-and-Prevention) Director Rochelle Walensky, criticizing their agencies' lack of transparency surrounding the development of COVID-19 vaccines and lack of public disclosure of the true rate of adverse events suffered as a result.[\[2\]](#fn2)

## External links

- [Campfire Wiki](https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=florida%5Fdepartment%5Fhealth)
- [Website](https://www.floridahealth.gov/)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%5FDepartment%5Fof%5FHealth)

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1. Communications Office. (2023, February 15). *Health Alert on mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Safety.* Florida Department of Health. <https://web.archive.org/web/20230216173659/https://www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2023/02/20230215-updated-health-alert.pr.html> [↩︎](#fnref1)
2. Ladapo, J. A. (2023, May 10). *Letter to Robert Califf and Rochelle Walensky.* Florida Department of Health. <https://web.archive.org/web/20230701182730/https://www.floridahealth.gov/%5Fdocuments/newsroom/press-releases/2023/05/20230510-florida-department-of-health-letter-to-fda-and-cdc.pdf> [↩︎](#fnref2)