California, Oregon, and Washington launched a three-state pro-vaccine guidance program amid limited CDC direction. Florida's surgeon general, Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, announced that Florida will drop all vaccine mandates, removing school vaccination requirements for diseases such as measles and polio. Ladapo has publicly criticized COVID-19 vaccination, authored a 2022 book with a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and previously urged halting mRNA vaccines while suggesting risks not supported by mainstream medical evidence. Public health experts have widely criticized these positions and warn that eliminating mandates could increase the risk of preventable disease outbreaks.
On the same day that California, Oregon, and Washington announced a new pro-vaccine coalition, offering a three-state vaccine guidance program in the absence of sane, scientific advice from the CDC, Florida's anti-vaxx surgeon general announced the state would drop all its vaccine mandates. We live in truly insane times. The far left and far right both wrap around and touch each other back in the far-far ether on the issue of vaccination conspiracy theories and pseudoscience don't descriminate, politically.
So, children won't need to get vaccinated for diseases we solved decades ago, like measles and polio, in order to go to school. And Florida's school system could, thus, become ground zero for outbreaks of these deadly diseases, all because of some cukoo crazy adults like Dr. Ladapo who was also a very vocal enemy the COVID-19 vaccine. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body? said Ladapo at a press conference Wednesday alongside Governor Ron DeSantis, per the New York Times. "Your body is a gift from God."
As far back as December 2023, in his role as Florida's surgeon general, he was calling for a total halt in the use of the mRNA-based vaccines, spreading fear that they could cause damage to human cells, cancer, and "chromosomal instability," none of which are supported by the medical community.
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