Miami Herald hits DeSantis on vaccine claims: 'Profile in selfishness'

The Miami Herald on Tuesday published an editorial piece blasting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for not encouraging vaccine administration in the state and for his comments saying that immunization only impacts the individual and not the community.

“It’s about your health and whether you want that protection or not. It really doesn’t impact me or anyone else," DeSantis said last week, which the Herald's editorial board commented on in an editorial piece.

"Doesn’t impact anyone else? Talk about a profile in selfishness,” the Herald board wrote. “Almost 46,000 have died of COVID in his state since the pandemic began. Too bad we can’t ask the thousands who have died since vaccines became available if they wished everyone around them had gotten vaccinated."