In this photo illustration, Ruth Jones, an immunization nurse, has a Pfizer-BionTech Covid-19 vaccine (brand name: Cumirnaty) at Borinquen Health Care Center on May 29, 2025 in Miami, Florida.
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Florida plans to put an end to all state vaccination mandates, including for children attending schools, the state surgeon Joseph Ladapo announced on Wednesday, an eminent criticism of vaccination.
This decision would make Florida the very first state in the United States to withdraw from the requirements that are credited to increase vaccination rates in communities and prevent epidemics of infectious diseases. The decline could lead to less than schoolchildren immunized against fatal viruses such as polio and measles, and presents itself while Florida leads the Southeast in the exemptions of non-medical vaccines among children of kindergarten.
“The Florida Ministry of Health, in partnership with the Governor, will work to end all Florida law vaccination mandates, all. All the last,” said Ladapo at a press conference, adding that the state has “perhaps half a dozen” fired in the state.
All states currently have vaccination requirements to attend public schools, although the exceptions vary depending on the state. Florida is one of the states that already allow parents to oppose vaccines for religious reasons.
Ladapo said the vaccine obliges “drops with disdain and slavery”, even if they are intended to protect public health. Vaccines have saved the lives of more than 1.1 million children in the United States and allowed Americans of $ 540 billion in direct health care costs over the past three decades, according to research by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published in August.
Ladapo has long been fears of vaccines, and its positions on fire and other measures have aroused criticism from the public health community. Last year, he called upon to stop the use of COVVI-19 mRNA plans, citing false claims that the blows could contaminate a person’s DNA.
This decision comes as the Secretary of Health and Social Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is moving to modify the vaccine policy in the United States, to eliminate a key panel from the government’s immunization, canceling the financing of the development of the shooting of RNA and abandoning the closet recommendations for certain groups.