What happened

Florida plans to become the first U.S. state to end all vaccine mandates, including immunization requirements for schoolchildren, state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Wednesday. Hours before Florida's announcement, the Democratic governors of California, Oregon and Washington said they were forming a West Coast Health Alliance to coordinate immunization policy as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cuts vaccine access and installs fellow anti-vaccine activists at the FDA and CDC.

Who said what

"Every last" vaccine requirement is "wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," Ladapo said at Wednesday's press conference. "Your body is a gift from God," and "who am I to tell you" what to put in it. Ladapo, a "vocal denigrator of vaccines," ha

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