US EditionDoctors Muffled as Florida Moves To End Decades of Childhood Vaccination Mandates
Governor DeSantis and Surgeon General Ladapo end mandates despite warnings that 80% vaccination in Sarasota County is below the 95% needed to prevent measles outbreaks.
- Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, with backing from Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, announced ending Florida’s school-age vaccination mandates, removing requirements for hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, and pneumonia.
- Political and activist pressure, including federal shifts, have eased vaccine mandates as youngsters in Florida face low vaccination rates due to lax enforcement, post-covid backlash, and a partisan split on vaccine policy.
- State data show only about 89% of kindergartners are fully vaccinated, with Sarasota County at about 80%, while public-health guidance notes a 95% immunization threshold for measles and clinicians warn hepatitis B could rebound with 2 million carriers.
- Clinicians warn that lower vaccination rates will raise cases of measles, hepatitis, meningitis and pneumonia, threatening schools and businesses in Florida and putting cancer patients and elderly communities at risk.
- Early next year, the Florida Legislature is expected to consider reversing the law requiring vaccination against seven diseases, while the 10% vaccination-rate decline scenario projects about 450,000 measles cases yearly.
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Doctors muffled as Florida moves to end decades of childhood vaccination mandates
Florida plans to end nearly a half-century of required childhood immunizations against diseases that have killed and maimed millions of children. Many critics of the decision, including doctors, are afraid to speak up against it.
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Best Indian American Magazine | San Jose CA | India CurrentsDoctors Muffled As Florida Moves To End Decades Of Childhood Vaccination Mandates
Florida has announced plans to end mandatory vaccination. Now scientists are assessing which of several diseases deadly to children — whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus — are likely to make a resurgence and when.
Doctors muffled as Florida moves to end decades of childhood health mandates
SARASOTA, Fla. — Florida plans to end nearly a half-century of required childhood immunizations against diseases that have killed and maimed millions of children. Many critics of the decision, including doctors, are afraid to speak up against it.With the support of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo on Sept. 3 announced his plan to end all school-age vaccination mandates in the state.“Every last one of them is wrong and …
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Doctors Muffled as Florida Moves To End Decades of Childhood Vaccination Mandates
SARASOTA, Fla. — Florida plans to end nearly a half-century of required childhood immunizations against diseases that have killed and maimed millions of children. Many critics of the decision, including doctors, are afraid to speak up against it. With the support of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo on Sept. 3 announced his plan to end all school-age vaccination mandates in the state. “Every last one of them is wrong an…
A Chasm Between U.S. Health Citizens: Is Vaccination a Personal Choice, or for the Benefit of All? – RamaOnHealthcare
One of the only uniting factors in U.S. health care across political parties is that most of the nation’s health citizens, cross-party ID, trust doctors and their professional associations for reliable information on vaccines. Pediatricians in particular are mostly-trusted for vaccine facts, according to the KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Tylenol-Autism Link [...]
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