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Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo called vaccine requirements in schools an intrusion on personal rights, close to “slavery.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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Florida will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, building on the effort by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to curb vaccine requirements and other health mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis also announced on Wednesday the creation of a state-level \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d commission modeled after similar initiatives pushed at the federal level by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the vaccines, state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as an \u201cimmoral\u201d intrusion on people’s rights bordering on \u201cslavery,\u201d and hampers parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople have a right to make their own decisions, informed decisions,\u201d said Ladapo, who has frequently clashed with the medical establishment, at a news conference in Valrico, Florida, in the Tampa area. \u201cThey don\u2019t have the right to tell you what to put in your body. Take it away from them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state Health Department, Ladapo said, can scrap its own rules for some vaccine mandates, but others would require action by the Florida Legislature. He did not specify any particular vaccines but repeated several times the effort would end \u201call of them. Every last one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florida would be the first state to eliminate so many vaccine mandates, Ladapo added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Florida, vaccine mandates for child day care facilities and public schools include shots for measles, chickenpox, hepatitis B, Diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP), polio and other diseases, according to the state Health Department\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under DeSantis, Florida resisted imposing COVID vaccines on schoolchildren, requiring \u201cpassports\u201d for places that draw crowds, school closures and mandates that workers get the shots to keep their jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s another state that\u2019s done as much as Florida. We want to stay ahead of the curve,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state \u201cMAHA\u201d commission would look into such things as allowing informed consent in medical matters, promoting safe and nutritious food, boosting parental rights regarding medical decisions about their children, and eliminating \u201cmedical orthodoxy that is not supported by the data,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The commission will be chaired by Lt. Gov. Jay Collins and Florida first lady Casey DeSantis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re getting government out of the way, getting government out of your lives,” Collins said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The commission’s work will help inform a large \u201cmedical freedom package\u201d to be introduced in the Legislature next session, which would address the vaccine mandates required by state law and make permanent the recent state COVID decisions relaxing restrictions, DeSantis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere will be a broad package,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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