More than 100 physicians across Florida have posted a letter addressed to the Florida Senate questioning the opposition by the state's new surgeon general to COVID-19 precautions, such as mask mandates and his advocacy for alternatives to vaccination against the disease. The physicians, writing as the Committee to Protect Health Care, include six Gainesville doctors, the Gainesville Sun reports. Among them are three faculty members in the College of Medicine at the University of Florida that has voted in favor of offering a tenured faculty post to Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who was nominated to become Florida's surgeon general by Governor Ron DeSantis last week. While Ladapo's published views align with many of DeSantis' policy positions, they place him at odds with some of his colleagues nationally and federal agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.