Florida moves to end all vaccine mandates, including for schoolchildren

""The Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor, is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida law, all of them. All of them. Every last one of them," Ladapo said during a news conference alongside Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis."

""People have a right to make their own decisions, informed decisions," Ladapo, a vaccine critic, said."

""After 35 years of many trips to Florida, this is the last straw," Figgy wrote in the comments section of The New York Times. "We're selling off our property rather than be subjected to all the disease-infected residents that have elected these political hacks that don't give a fig about their own people, let"

The Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor, will end all vaccine mandates in state law. The state currently requires about half a dozen vaccine shots. Decades-old mandates have aimed to curb disease spread nationwide and have been supported by physician and public health groups promoting vaccine safety and efficacy, particularly for schoolchildren. The rollback could reduce childhood immunization levels against diseases such as polio and measles. Nonmedical vaccine exemptions for kindergartners rose in Florida this year, mirroring a national trend and coinciding with the worst measles outbreak in 30 years. Some social media users said they would stop visiting Florida.

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