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This isn't the administration-aligned move it looks like — Trump publicly opposed Ladapo's campaign a year ago, and Florida's own Catholic bishops oppose the exemptions it just expanded.
Wednesday's paper framed this as Shapiro versus Kennedy; the CDC's own follow-up post reveals a three-way credibility fight the two-sided frame missed entirely.
Coverage that reduces alpha-gal to a novelty meat allergy skips the clinical reality: daily anaphylaxis, a young diagnosis, and a newly documented transfusion risk.
This inverts the expected alignment: a Republican attorney general is fighting a Republican-aligned church for more vaccine exemptions, not fewer.
A quiet public-health win carries one demographic exception that complicates both a triumphalist story and a declinist one.
A counterintuitive result complicates one of public health's least-scrutinized claims — the automated measurement method, not hand hygiene itself, is the real news.