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In It to Win It

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Wed Sep 3, 2025, 03:43 PM Wednesday

DeSantis to make Florida first state to end all vaccine mandates for schools

Florida is set to end all state vaccine mandates, state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced at a news conference Wednesday.

For decades, the state has required numerous vaccines for kids attending school, including shots that protect against Measles-mumps-rubella, polio, chickenpox and Hepatitis B.

But Ladapo on Wednesday compared these mandates to “slavery,” and promised that they all will soon end. He did not immediately provide specifics.

Vaccines have saved at least 154 million lives in the last 50 years, according to the World Health Organization. The vast majority of the lives saved were infants.

https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article311956239.html
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DeSantis to make Florida first state to end all vaccine mandates for schools (Original Post) In It to Win It Wednesday OP
Sun Shinola State? Home to Senior Orange and Dunce World? . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Wednesday #1
More from Fla Sturgeon General: GreenWave Wednesday #2
this will happen in every red state Skittles Wednesday #3
There is a free market solution to this, which the Republicans should love, and it's beautiful in its simplicity. cloudbase Wednesday #4

cloudbase

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4. There is a free market solution to this, which the Republicans should love, and it's beautiful in its simplicity.
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 05:53 PM
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Private health insurance carriers refuse to cover any person not vaccinated to a predetermined standard.

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