Florida’s surgeon general announced Wednesday that the state plans to eliminate all vaccine mandates

Speaking at a press conference, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo described vaccine mandates as “drip[ping] with disdain and slavery” and said:

The Florida Department of Health [has] some rules that [my predecessors] promulgated that include a handful — maybe a half a dozen vaccines that are mandated in Florida. So those are going to be gone. … We’re going to be working with our amazing Governor DeSantis and our wonderful lawmakers to get rid of the rest of them. We need to end it. It’s the right thing to do.

Children entering daycare or preschool in Florida are currently required to show proof of immunization from polio, diphtheria, measles, rubella, pertussis or whooping cough, m

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