State sponsored commercials promoting COVID-19 vaccinations have been pulled from Florida’s airwaves.
Summary
- Spots are produced by the Florida Department of Health, which then disseminates them to stations around the state.
- Last March, the Biden administration rolled out a billion dollar ad campaign about the importance of the vaccine.
- AdThose videos featured pastors, local sports stars and health department veterans.
- These ran until early November, when the state health department made a sudden change.
- The decision was made to pull those vaccine promoting spots in television markets around the state, instead running anti-smoking spots with that Covid funding while the new campaign was developed.