Florida Governor Ron DeSantis held a press conference Thursday to ask for a special legislative session to fight COVID-19 vaccine mandates, the Tallahassee Democrat reports. QUOTE “We’re here to announce that we need to take action to protect Florida jobs,” DeSantis said. Attorney General Ashley Moody and Surgeon General and Secretary of Health Dr. Joseph Ladapo were by his side. Other speakers included a battalion fire chief who lost his job over his agency's COVID policy, an airline employee who faced being fired, and a registered nurse whose license was threatened over her refusal to comply by reporting her vaccine status. The announcement is an unprecedented bucking of widely accepted public health recommendations in a state that's been a COVID hotspot, coming as DeSantis heads into a year of campaigning for his reelection.