After Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced on Wednesday that the state will work to eliminate all vaccine mandates , public officials on both sides of the political aisle and even Ladapo's own employer have condemned the move.

"Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," Ladapo, a longtime vaccine skeptic , said to a burst of applause. "Who am I as a man standing here now to tell you what you should put in your body? Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body? I don't have that right. Your body is a gift from God."

Given that routine childhood vaccines have saved 154 million lives over the last 50 years, all 50 states require children to receive specific immunizations before attending public school, although some states, in

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