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Florida to end all vaccination mandate, the first state in us to do this

Ruth Jones, immunization Nurse, will hold a Pfizer-Biontech Covid 19 vaccine (brand name: Comirnaty) in the Borinquen Health Care in Miami, Florida on May 29, 2025.

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Florida plans to end all state vaccination mandate, including the children who attend schools, the state general surgeon Joseph Ladapo, a prominent immunization critic, announced on Wednesday.

The step would take Florida the first state in the United States to withdraw from the requirements that are attributed to increasing vaccination rates in communities and prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases. The rollback could cause fewer school children to be immunized against deadly viruses such as polio and measles. Florida leads the southeast of non -medical vaccine exceptions among kindergarten teachers.

“In cooperation with the governor, the Florida Ministry of Health will work to end all vaccination mandates in the law of Florida. Everyone. Everyone. The last one,” said Ladapo during a press conference and added that the state is “perhaps half a dozen” to the state.

The general surgeon in Florida, Joseph Ladapo and governor Ron Desantis, at a press conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, on January 6, 2022.

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All states currently have vaccinations to participate in public schools, although the exceptions vary depending on the state. Florida is one of the states that already enable parents to raise vaccines for religious reasons.

Ladapo said that vaccination mandates “drip with contempt and slavery”, even though they are supposed to protect public health. Vaccinations have saved more than 1.1 million children in the United States and saved the Americans in the past three decades direct costs for health care in the amount of $ 540 billion, according to the investigations of the centers published in August for the control and prevention of diseases.

Ladapo is afraid of vaccines for a long time, and his attitude for shots and other measures has criticized the public health community. Last year he called for the use of MRNA COVID-19 shots to stand and quote false claims that the bumps could contaminate the DNA of a person.

The step comes when Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary for health and human services, to change the vaccine guideline in the USA, from the reduction of an important state immunization committee, to stop financing for the development of mRNA and to make covid shot recommendations for certain groups.