Florida Ends All Vaccines Mandate

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Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates, a longtime cornerstone of public health policy for keeping schoolchildren and adults safe from infectious diseases.

State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who announced the decision Wednesday, cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as “immoral” intrusions on people’s rights that hamper parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children.

“People have a right to make their own decisions, informed decisions,” Ladapo, who has frequently clashed with the medical establishment, said at a news conference in Valrico. “They don’t have the right to tell you what to put in your body. Take it away from them.”

Florida’s move, a significant departure from decades of public policy and research that has shown vaccines to be safe and the most effective way to stop the spread of communicable diseases, especially among schoolchildren, is a notable embrace of the Trump administration’s agenda led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist.

Dr. Rana Alissa, chair of the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said removing vaccines puts students and school staff at greater risk.

“When everyone in a school is vaccinated, it is harder for diseases to spread and easier for everyone to continue learning and having fun,” Alissa said in an email. “When children are sick and miss school, caregivers also miss work, which not only impacts those families but also the local economy.”

In Florida, vaccine mandates for child day care facilities and public schools include shots for measles, chickenpox, hepatitis B, diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis, polio and other diseases, according to the state Health Department’s website.

Ladapo didn’t give a timeline for the changes but said the department can scrap its own rules for some vaccine mandates, though others would require action by the Florida Legislature. He did not specify any particular vaccines but repeated several times that the effort would end “all of them. Every last one of them.”

The American Medical Association issued a statement saying Florida’s plan to end vaccine mandates “would undermine decades of public health progress.”

“While there is still time, we urge Florida to reconsider this change to help prevent a rise of infectious disease outbreaks that put health and lives at risk,” said Dr. Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, an AMA trustee.

Under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida resisted imposing COVID vaccines on schoolchildren during the pandemic, requiring “passports” for places that draw crowds, school closures and mandates that workers get the shots to keep their jobs.

https://apnews.com/article/florida-childhood-vaccines-mandate-eliminate-desantis-363323dcdd3811ca9ad7def5f9a30fb2

[BrandyFinest 841]

If they want to have all their citizens in an Iron Lung them more power to them ig

[Morphine Prince 109,655]

We live in the dumbest timeline.

It’s so depressing to see stupidity winning in every area of society. 

This isn’t a world I want to live in. 

[elijahfan 27,484]

Oh so it’s not the 1950s they want to go back to, but the 19th century…

[Fatigay 21,211]

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You get polio! You get measles! You get hepatitis! 

[27monster27 15,857]

I blame this for night three.

[robotvoiceinalice 2,116]

yikes won't ever be going there

[southpaw773 4,365]

The kids all gonna get the diseases their characters got when they play Oregon Trail 

[faysalaaa 5,336]

There is mandates?!

Edited September 4, 2025 by faysalaaa

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3 minutes ago, faysalaaa said:

There is mandates?!

Every kids in all states of USA need to be vaccinated before they can enroll in schools. Namely TDAP vaccine, Polio vaccine, MMr vaccine & Varicella vaccine 

Also, everyone who are from outside US and don't have vaccine mandates in place in their country will need to get these same vaccines before they can apply for US Visa

Edited September 4, 2025 by RAMROD

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Sometimes I feel like Florida is doing its best so the other states remove it from the country or something

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“People have a right to make their own decisions, informed decisions,” Ladapo, who has frequently clashed with the medical establishment, said at a news conference in Valrico. “They don’t have the right to tell you what to put in your body. Take it away from them.”

 

First, the people making the choice to end this mandate clearly doesn't pay attention to the correct information...

Second, then when do women get the right to make their own decisions about their body?  

[faysalaaa 5,336]

5 hours ago, RAMROD said:

Every kids in all states of USA need to be vaccinated before they can enroll in schools. Namely TDAP vaccine, Polio vaccine, MMr vaccine & Varicella vaccine 

Also, everyone who are from outside US and don't have vaccine mandates in place in their country will need to get these same vaccines before they can apply for US Visa

Oh sorry I I dont know why I thought this story was about covid vaccine mandates

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florida is a mess chile