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Florida Parents Have Mixed Feelings on Vaccine Mandate Changes
Florida is set to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, including those for schoolchildren, following influence from a prominent vaccine skeptic.
- On Wednesday, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced plans to eliminate all state vaccine mandates, including those for schoolchildren, saying, `The Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor, is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida`.
- Amid influence from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ladapo, who has long questioned COVID-19 vaccine safety, said he would work to end mandates, calling them wrong.
- The department said it will end mandates for certain vaccines, planning to drop requirements for four vaccines including chickenpox, while MMR and polio vaccines require state legislature approval.
- Medical groups and Democrats immediately cautioned the rollback risks children’s health, with Candace DeMatteis saying, `With an outbreak, they're more vulnerable, more disease, more illness, more permanent damage and potentially death.`
- The department plans to roll out exemptions over the next 80 days, but the repeal faces legal challenges and uncertain support in the Florida Legislature, possibly making Florida the first state to end all mandates.
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