St. Petersburg, Florida (AP) – Florida Plant to become the first state to remove vaccination mandate that have been a cornerstone of public health policy for decades to protect school children and adults from infectious diseases.
The general surgeon, General of the Generalkirurg, who announced the decision on Wednesday, exhibited current requirements in schools and elsewhere as “immoral” interventions in the rights of people who hinder the ability of parents to make health decisions for their children.
“People have the right to make their own decisions in sound decisions,” said Ladapo, who often collapsed with the medical facility, at a press conference in Valrico. “You don’t have the right to tell you what to put in your body. Take it away.”
For a long time, medical groups and other health organizations considered the most effective way to stop the spread of transferable diseases, especially in school children.
Dr. Rana Alissa, chairman of the Florida chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said that removing vaccines consists of a higher risk of students and school staff.
“If everyone is vaccinated in a school, it is more difficult for diseases to spread and easier for everyone to learn and have fun,” said Alissa in an e -mail. “When children are sick and miss the school, the supervisors also miss the work as for not only these families, but also the local economy.”
Anna Eskamani, who ran to the Democratic State, who is running for the mayor of Orlando, said in a social media post that the scrap of vaccines was “ruthless and dangerous” and could cause outbursts of avoidable diseases.
“This is a disaster for public health in the production of the Sunshine state,” said Eskamani on the social platform X.
The step comes when the Trump administration works to restructure the US centers for the control and prevention of diseases and to redesign the country’s vaccine policy.
The democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California announced on Wednesday that they created an alliance to secure health policy and claimed the government politicized politicized.
The partnership is planning to coordinate the health guidelines by aligning the immunization plans based on the recommendations of respected national medical organizations, according to a joint explanation by governor Bob Ferguson from Washington, governor Tina Kotek from Oregon and Gaverneur Gavin News from California.
The Vaccines have saved at least 154 million lives worldwide in the past 50 years, the World Health Organization reported in 2024. The majority of them were infants and children.
“Vaccines are among the most powerful inventions in history and once fed illnesses,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the general director.
In Florida, the vaccination mandates for daycare centers and public schools include recordings for measles, chickenpox, hepatitis B, diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis, polio and other diseases according to the website of the State Ministry of Health.
According to Ladapo, the department can scrap its own rules for some vaccination mandates, but others would demand measures to legislation from Florida. He did not state certain vaccines, but repeated himself several times that the effort “all of them. Each last of them”.
Under Republican Governor Ron Desantis, Florida opposed to school children, the “passports” for places that draw crowds, school closures and mandates that the workers receive the excavations for their work, “passes”.
“I don’t think there is another state that has done as much as Florida. We want to stay ahead of the curve,” said the governor.
Desantis also announced the creation of a state commission “Make America Nedia Healthy”, the initiatives similar on Wednesday, that of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Commission would investigate how it enables a declaration of consent in medical matters, promotes secure and nutritious food, promotes parental rights in medical decisions about its children and “medical orthodoxy that is not supported by the data”. The Commission is made by Lt. Governor Jay Collins and Florida First Lady Casey Desantis.
The work of the Commission will assist to inform a great “medical freedom package” at the next meeting in legislation that take into account the statutory vaccination mandates and the latest state decisions that would relax the restrictions on relaxing decisions, said Desantis.
