In Florida, parents ponder future with fewer vaccines

Mason’s son, Cammi Norwood’s son, “jumps with joy” in Florida, Palmetto next year.

Norwood said that the four -year -old child, who was diagnosed with 4 kidney disease at birth, had two healthy years without a hospital visit and was willing to be in the classroom with friends.

However, the 32 -year -old mother announced last week that Florida’s general surgeon will try to end vaccination duties, including school children, and began to rethink rethinking to send his immune son to school.

“It’s just scary, Mrs Mrs. Norwood said. “If these children are not vaccinated … If someone will come with measles, they may get very sick.”

Medicine experts and some parents are worried that the movement of the surgeon General will threaten the health of vulnerable children like Mason, and prepare the ground for a new age of infectious disease directed by lower vaccine rates.

“We will have the pockets of outbreaks of different types of infectious diseases,” Florida’s former surgeon Scott Rivkees said to the BBC. He said. “For example, older, more immune adults and children who can have cancer will be afraid of entering the public.”

If Florida continued, it would have long been one of the first states to officially eliminate childhood vaccine tasks, which have been a fixture in parents’ plans to return to school. In April, Idaho’s governor signed a law that loosen the vaccination requirements.

These moves, a vaccine suspicious health secretary Robert F Kennedy JR re -undertakes the US vaccination policy and the country’s Public Health Agency, Disease Control and Prevention Centers (CDC) are in turmoil.

When the Florida surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced the effort at the beginning of this month, he likened the existing tasks as “slavery” and said that parents should eventually have an option.

While their efforts were supported by the Republican Governor Ron Desantis, leading medical organizations, including the American Pediatrics Academy, are opposed to the plan.

Ladapo did not offer details and did not respond to the request for comments from his office BBC. However, Florida’s health department Associated Press said he would remove school duties on vaccines for Hepatit B, Chicisepox, Hib Influenza and Pneumococcal diseases within 90 days.

Medical experts told the BBC in a statement, the abolition of tasks in other vaccines, the state legislature, the Florida administrative code will require a change in the administrative code, he said.

The announcement worried Meghan Bichard, two mothers in Lake County, Florida. Two 39 -year -old children are already vaccinated between eight and three years of age, but recognizes a few parents who have no children in the town.

“It is troublesome to hear that some of these preventive diseases will become a petri meal here,” he said. “Why don’t we want to protect ourselves and why don’t we want to protect our neighbors?”

However, Longwood was “very pleased” from Ladapo’s policy.

He was moved from New York, who did not allow religious exemptions for vaccinations with his family, so he could go to the public school with the waiver of the six -year -old unmasted trio.

“I support a parent’s right to decide that they think it’s right for their children,” he said. “But I don’t support you to make you need to do what to do.”

An end questionnaire The non -health profit KFF argues that the majority of parents in Florida and the United States want vaccination requirements for 20% – about 80%.

University Public Health Professor. Rivkees said that although Florida has a relatively high vaccination rate, the number of religious exemptions for shots has increased in recent years.

As exemptions grow, Meghan Martin, a pediatric emergency medical doctor at Johns Hopkins in Florida, said that he has seen more epidemics of vaccine preventive diseases in recent years.

For example, he said that coughs or cough cases were rare in the past, but now it was a monthly event. In 2024, Pertussis felt more than 700 Floridian in 2023 in 2023. The state has seen several measles during the last year, because the United States has fought the worst epidemic of infection for decades and led to three deaths, including two children. In Texas.

Dr Martin said that policy could further reduce the vaccine rates in the state and cause more severe illnesses and potentially overcrowded hospitals.

In an interview with CNN, Ladapo said on Sunday that his department did not analyze data on how the policy change of policy changes can affect the outbreaks of vaccination prevented diseases.

“Do I need to analyze whether parents can decide what is happening to their children’s bodies? I don’t have to do an analysis on this subject,” he said.

Florida’s new policy pressure on vaccines follows Kennedy’s efforts to change US regulations and suggestions. As the unofficial leader of the “making America healthy” movement, or in short, Maha, the health secretary is clear about the unfounded concerns about the connection between vaccinations and autism.

Since the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) took the rudder, Kennedy fired hundreds of medical officials to save what he saw as “corruption”. An independent vaccine committee issued all members of the Advisory Committee with several vaccine suspects and narrowed suggestions for the Covid-19 strengthening shots.

Last week, when the CDC fired his head, he reacted to the rejection of tire stamp suggestions from the new vaccine panel.

CDC’s National Vaccination and Respiratory Diseases Center former director Demetre Daskalakis, changes, mother -father and doctors, said that it is confusing for those who try to follow vaccine guides.

Dr Daskalakis, who resigned to protest Dr Monarez’s task, said that when patients confused, their general reactions avoided “nothing” or vaccinated.

“This means more infection, more hospitalization, more disability, and more death.” He said.

Dr. Rivkees, former surgeon of Florida, said Kennedy’s anti -vaccine discourse opened a door for Ladapo.

“In Washington, when you do something to weaken the vaccination at many different levels, which are responsible for the health of the whole country, this will definitely hit the resonance chord for intellectual individuals.” He said.

Kennedy’s views, Mrs. Fernandez and the community “Make America again healthy” goals, many of the targets echoed with others, he said. Ladapo and Kennedy’den “I’m very excited about the stances,” he said.

Dr. Rana Alissa, head of the Florida Department of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said he would not try to change Florida’s vaccination laws if he supports health secretary scientists and experts.

“The world is watching,” he said. “Dangerous … It will cost life.”