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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDeSantis 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.
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
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Sun Shinola State? Home to Senior Orange and Dunce World? . . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Wednesday
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Bernardo de La Paz
(57,976 posts)1. Sun Shinola State? Home to Senior Orange and Dunce World? . . . . nt
GreenWave
(11,435 posts)2. More from Fla Sturgeon General:

Skittles
(167,043 posts)3. this will happen in every red state
repukes are, as usual, taking us backwards
cloudbase
(6,050 posts)4. There is a free market solution to this, which the Republicans should love, and it's beautiful in its simplicity.
Private health insurance carriers refuse to cover any person not vaccinated to a predetermined standard.