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Florida surgeon general plans to remove all school vaccine mandates

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said Wednesday the state is working to eliminate vaccine mandates for schools.

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The Sunshine State’s decades-old vaccine requirements for daycare facilities and public schools mandates children receive inoculations against disease like measles, whooping cough, polio, among others.

Ladapo said the state’s health department could remove mandates on about half a dozen vaccines while the state legislature would be needed to remove the rest. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,” Ladapo, a longtime vaccine skeptic, said.

Florida is now trying to become the first state to remove vaccine mandates for schools, a move that has shocked healt

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