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TALLAHASSEE, Florida (LifeSiteNews) – Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a controversial extension of liability protections for health care providers related to COVID-19, paired with a new executive action to address a subset of critics’ concerns.
In 2021, DeSantis and Florida lawmakers enacted legislation to immunize businesses and health care providers from various COVID-related lawsuits under certain circumstances, including if a health provider “made a good faith effort to substantially comply with authoritative or controlling government-issued health standards” related to COVID, be they federal, state, or local. Supporters say the protection is necessary to protect health providers from the financial burden of “frivolous” lawsuits.
As covered last week by LifeSiteNews, 35 organizations and activists signed a letter urging the governor to veto SB 7014, a Republican-backed measure to extend this protection until June 2023:
Government issued health standards (or “treatment protocols”) include the CDC’s Covid-19 guidelines which many say aren’t working. Some medical professionals have stated that these CDC protocols have led to unnecessary medicines, ventilation and deaths. With SB 7014 in it’s current form health care providers could
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