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Florida officials announced Wednesday they volition question to marque the authorities the archetypal successful the state without schoolhouse vaccine mandates, with Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo comparing the requirements to slavery.
“Every past 1 of them is incorrect and drips with disdain and slavery,” Ladapo, a longtime vaccine skeptic, said aft announcing Florida plans to extremity each vaccine mandates without exceptions.
“Who americium I to archer you what your kid should enactment successful their body? I don’t person that right. Your assemblage is simply a acquisition from God,” helium added.
Ladapo said his section volition repeal what mandates are nether his control, and the authorities legislature volition person to instrumentality attraction of the rest.
School districts successful Florida, similar others crossed the country, necessitate vaccinations for polio, diphtheria, rubeola, rubella, pertussis, mumps, tetanus and different communicable diseases.
The determination comes arsenic vaccination rates among children are already connected the decline and arsenic the national authorities has taken the COVID-19 vaccine disconnected the recommended list for steadfast children.
Florida besides announced it would beryllium creating a “Make America Healthy Again” committee led by authorities archetypal woman Casey DeSantis.
"I deliberation that this is thing that has large potential," Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said. "We’ve already done a lot. I don’t deliberation there’s immoderate authorities that has done adjacent adjacent to what we’ve done."
