The general surgeon of Florida, Joseph Ladapoannounced Wednesday that All state vaccine mandates for schools will end soon, The first state to take that measure.
The State demands vaccines For school -age children, INcaides that protect against chickenpox, measles, papers, rubella, polio and hepatitis B.
Ladapo compared vaccination mandates with A “slavery” And he said they will end up announcing the pending change during a press conference at the Grace de Valrico Christian school, according to NBC News reported.
He added that the State has mandates for approximately half a dozen vaccines, which will be repealed.
“All. Until the last of them”, Ladapo said. “Who am I, as a man, to tell them what they should put in their bodies?”
The governor of Florida, Ron desantis, He supported the measure and said that his administration can eliminate some of the mandates, but the Florida Legislature would have to eliminate others, according to The Washington Post.
The proposed change has raised criticism of public health experts. “We can expect a resurgence of measles,” he said Pediatrician Paul Offit To The Washington Post.
“Other infectious diseases will continue to appear,” Offit continued. “This is an unprecedented measure that will only put our children at an unnecessary risk.”
In the last 50 years, Vaccines have saved approximately 154 million lives, most of them from babies, according to The World Health Organization.
Vaccines generate collective immunity against specific diseases, which requires a vaccination rate of at least 94% in a defined population to achieve it, according to The Mayo Clinic.
Ladapopo is an skeptic known regarding vaccination mandateslike the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert Kennedy Jr.
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