(The Guardian) Florida surgeon general says state will eliminate vaccine mandates for children
Children in Florida will no longer be required to receive vaccines against preventable diseases including measles, mumps, chicken pox, polio and hepatitis, the state’s surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, announced on Wednesday.
In a speech announcing the move, Ladapo likened vaccine mandates to “slavery”.
Ladapo, hand-picked for the role by Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, is a long-time skeptic of the benefit of vaccines, and has previously been accused of peddling “scientific nonsense” by public health advocates.
In his Wednesday speech he said that every state vaccine requirement would be repealed, and that he expected the move would receive the blessing “of God”. “All of them. All of them,” Ladapo said. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.”
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Children in Florida will no longer be required to receive vaccines against preventable diseases including measles, mumps, chicken pox, polio and hepatitis, the state’s surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, announced on Wednesday.
In a speech announcing the move, Ladapo likened vaccine mandates to “slavery”.
Ladapo, hand-picked for the role by Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, is a long-time skeptic of the benefit of vaccines, and has previously been accused of peddling “scientific nonsense” by public health advocates.
In his Wednesday speech he said that every state vaccine requirement would be repealed, and that he expected the move would receive the blessing “of God”. “All of them. All of them,” Ladapo said. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.”
Florida plans to become first state to ban all vaccine requirements
Vaccine mandates are immoral and akin to slavery, says Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo.
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