FAKE NEWS: Miami Herald LIES, Claims Florida “Refused” to Explain Monoclonal Distribution

By Eric Daugherty

Published Jan. 11, 2022, 2:02 p.m. ET | Updated Jan. 3, 2023

January 11, 2021 Updated 11:00 A.M. ET

TALLAHASSEE (FCV) – After the Miami Herald published an article Monday claiming that Florida sent “scarce COVID-19 therapy to a private Broward clinic before Jackson memorial,” Jeremy Redfern, Press Secretary for the Florida Department of Health, exposed the fact that the author did not give him a deadline to respond:

No we didn’t.

I told @dchangmiami this afternoon that I’d get back to him, and he never gave me a deadline. https://t.co/DqHOWqes9y pic.twitter.com/6g6Hy2jLUW
— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) January 11, 2022

“He never gave me a deadline,” Redfern explained, after a user highlighted a quote from the article – “Florida’s health department has refused the Herald’s requests to explain the state’s prioritization plan for distributing Evusheld and other COVID-19 therapeutics received from the federal government.”

Conservatives are criticizing Daniel Chang, the author of the article, for not properly providing a deadline for comment on a story, which is standard practice in journalism.