Florida's plan to drop school vaccine rule won't start for 90 days, won't cover all diseases

Florida’s plan to end some school vaccine mandates won’t take effect for 90 days and initially covers only chickenpox and few other diseases.

Major vaccines including measles, polio and mumps remain required unless state lawmakers decide to expand the policy in future legislation.

The move comes amid the worst measles outbreak in three decades, with more than 1,400 cases nationwide and rising whooping cough infections.

Florida’s plan to drop school vaccine mandates probably won’t take effect for 90 days and would include only chickenpox and a few other illnesses unless lawmakers extend it to other diseases, such as polio and measles, the health department said Sunday.

The department responded to a request for details, four days after Florida’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, said t