Florida plan to drop school vaccine mandates won’t take effect for 90 days | Florida
Florida’s plan Leave your school vaccination duties The Health Department said on Sunday, probably not going into force for 90 days, and unless deputies decided to expand to other diseases such as children’s paralysis and measles, they would only contain water accusations and a few diseases.
The department responded to detail request after four days Florida’s surgeon GeneralDr Joseph Ladapo said the state would be the first person to volunteer vaccines and allow families to decide to vaccinate their children.
This is a withdrawal from public policy and research, which has lasted for decades of vaccinations that are safe and especially among children, the most effective way to stop the spread of infectious diseases. Despite these evidence, the health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr deeply expressed Skepticism about vaccines.
Health department, Florida’s plan Hepatitis B, Jibpox, Hib Influenza and Meningit will increase school vaccines for pneumococcal diseases such as said.
“The episode launched a change of rule on September 3, 2025 and predicts that the change of rule will not be effective for about 90 days,” he said. The public school year in Florida began in August.
The department said, “It does not remain in place ,, including all vaccines, measles, children’s paralysis, diphtheria, whooping, pumpkin and tetanus, including all vaccines required to attend school within the scope of the Florida law.
Although the committee meetings begin in October, the deputies do not meet again until January 2026.
Ladapo, appeared in CNN on Sunday, repeated the free election message for childhood vaccines.
“If you want them, God forbid, you can have as much as you want,” he said. “And if you don’t want them, parents must have the ability and power to decide what is happening to their children’s bodies. It is that simple.”
At the beginning of this week, Ladapo received criticism after comparing the vaccine tasks with “slavery”. Speaking at a press conference with Florida’s Governor of Florida, who expressed deep vaccine skepticism, Ladapo said the vaccine requirements: “Each dripped with false and disdain and slavery.”
His comments, Anna Eskamani, the representative of Democratic Florida, says: “Democratic Florida state representative Anna Eskamani says:“ The obligation to vaccine is reckless and dangerous. It will reduce the vaccine rates and open to the outbreaks of preventable diseases, and put children, the elderly and vulnerable fluorids at risk. “
In the meantime, John Moore, a professor of microbiology and immunology in Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, said, “Florida’s principals will now have to plan the future by increasing small coffin stocks,” he said.
Ladapo had previously changed the data by the State Health Department in his 2022 study to exaggerate cardiac death risks for young men. The study initially rejected any important risk for young men associated with vaccines. But Ladapo changed The language of men between the ages of 18 and 39 will claim that they are at risk of high heart disease from two Covid vaccines using MRNA technology.
Ladapo also claimed that in 2023, the booster shots were not tested on humans and that they had “red flags .. In the same year, the US Food and Pharmaceutical Administration and Disease Control and Prevention Centers called Ladapo’s vaccine postures as harmful to the public.
The Federal letter said, ür Protecting the lives of the population they serve, especially the life of those who are vulnerable, the work of public health authorities throughout the country: “Fuel vaccine hesitation undermines this effort.”
Florida is currently a religious exemption For vaccination requirements. According to the World Health Organization in 2024, vaccines have saved at least 154 million lives globally in the last 50 years. Most of them reported that they were infants and children.
Dr. Rana Alissa, Head of the Florida Department of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said that vaccines are at risk of volunteer students and school staff.
This The worst year for measles In the USA for more than thirty years, more than 1,400 cases have been approved throughout the country, Most in Texasand three deaths.
The stool cough killed at least two babies in Louisiana and A five -year -old boy in the state of Washington Since winter, it has spread rapidly. More than 19,000 cases as of August 23, about 2,000 more than this time last year, According to the front CDC data.
Maya Yang contributed to reporting
