VALRICO, Fla — Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced the state's Department of Health will be working to end all vaccine mandates.

At a news conference in Valrico, the health official said the government doesn't have the right to tell citizens what to put in their bodies.

Ladapo didn't give a specific timeline for when the mandates would be ended or how his team would achieve this.

"Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," he said. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in your body?"

School immunization requirements for Florida include MMR, Hepatitis B, Polio, Measles-mumps-rubella, chickenpox and several others.

"It's not that sometimes people will end up regretting the decision they made, and we've seen a lot of that from the COVID-1

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