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Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said Wednesday that the state will work to eliminate all vaccine mandates.
“All of them. All of them,” he said during a news conference as the crowd stood and erupted in applause. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," said Ladapo, who altered data in a 2022 study about Covid-19 vaccines in an attempt to exaggerate the risk to young men who took one. He said the Florida Department of Health will work in partnership with the governor, and that he expected the move would receive the blessing “of God”. Ladapo also said that “it’ll be wonderful for Florida to be the first state to do it”.
He said forcing vaccine mandates is “wrong” and “immoral.” "Who am I as a government or anyone else, who am I as a man standing here now, to tell you what you should put in your body? Lapado said. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body? I don’t have that right.”
Florida requires current vaccinations for students going to public school. Routine childhood vaccinations will have prevented approximately 508 million cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations, and 1.13m deaths among children born in the US between 1994 and 2023, according to a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report published last year. It estimated that the vaccine program nationally resulted in direct savings of $540bn and societal savings of $2.7tn.
Ladapo has previously railed against vaccines in Florida. He said that people under 65 shouldn't get an mRNA Covid vaccine, at the time contradicting guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And during a 2024 measles outbreak in the state, he said that parents should watch for measles symptoms but could make their own decision about whether to send children to school. He did not encourage vaccination, saying that growing skepticism of vaccines were “reflections of God’s light against the darkness of tyranny and oppression”.
Ladapo's announcement came as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis revealed the establishment of the Florida Make America Healthy Again commission, which will recommend state-level integration of President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again effort. The commission will be chaired by First Lady Casey DeSantis and Lt. Gov. Jay Collins. Ladapo, Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Shevaun Harris and Department of Children and Families Secretary Taylor Hatch will also be members of the commission.
Florida surgeon general says state will eliminate all vaccine mandates
"Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," Dr. Joseph Ladapo said. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?"
www.nbcnews.com
Nah, do as we say.
