With no more vaccine mandates, who are the most at risk in Florida?

Shelley Mickle just started when the fire came.

The child was paralysis. It was 1949. There was no vaccine.

He was paralyzed from the waist for a few days. Some movements have returned, but some muscles disappeared forever.

Leg brackets like Forrest Gump’s for a few years. Squak gave him when he played hide -and -seek. Another child paralysis in his class was very weak, the teacher had to put him in a hanger and tie him to his desk.

Now 82 and Mickle living in Gainesville is walking loosely. When he hears that Florida plans to be the first state of the nation Lift all vaccination dutiesHis mind returned to the infection that changed his life.

“This was a show of fear, many children were influenced by this terrible virus and partly paralyzed,” he said. “It is minded that someone proposes to return to the dark ages.”

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo warned that last week by hostage, medical societies and healthcare professionals to scrape every vaccine task, marginalizing decimal public health policy and once in some cases eliminate childhood drawings.

Among the concerns, high vaccine rates are decreasing, which is also known as pertussis, epidemics of infectious diseases such as whooping and declaring that the United States was eliminated in 2000.

According to Disease Control and Prevention Centers, this year there are 35 measles epidemic and three -approved deaths in the US this year.

This includes Texas, the greatest measles epidemic in 30 years with two child deaths and more than 700 infections.

Nine measles infection was attached to a epidemic that Ladapo was allowed to allow unvaded children to go to school at a Broward County High School last year.

Florida health officials, last month, this year, six rabies infection confirmed more.

According to federal data, the reported cases of drowning were six times higher than the previous year in 2024. Complications of the disease include pneumonia, middle ear infection, fainting, dehydration, seizures and brain swelling.

“We see that healthy children die of this disease and that children to be hospitalized for intensive care is essentially prevented,” said Jennifer Walsh, an assistant professor and pediatric nurse practitioner of George Washington University Nursing School.

The necessity of vaccination for children to go to school has been in Florida since 1981. In explaining his decision, Ladapo said the government had no right to tell a parent what to put in his children’s body.

Ladapo, the best health authority of the state, did not say that vaccines have been proven to be safe, or that they would encourage their parents to continue to vaccinate their children. Since its appointment in 2021, it has repeatedly published a count of guidance to the recommendations of disease control and prevention centers and other medical organizations.

In an interview with CNN, Ladapo admitted that Florida Ministry of Health did not want the employees of the Ministry of Health to analyze how policy could affect the children of the state or whether they would potentially cause an increase in fatal infections.

On Monday, the Florida government Ron Desantis reiterated its support to the surgeon and pointed to countries that still achieve high levels of vaccination, including the United Kingdom, Sweden and Norway.

“I think if you provide information and persuasion, it is better than this coercion,” he said at a press conference at Plant City on Monday.

However, in 2020, in Germany and in 2018, other European countries, including France, adopted vaccination obligation or made more shots in response to epidemics.

In other cases, the relaxation of vaccine powers was reversed after outbreaks. In June 2019, New York Gov.andrew Cuomo signed a legislation that eliminated non -medical exemption vaccination powers after more than 260 measles were confirmed in Rockland County.

WALSH, for students throughout the United States, limited classes, corridors and locker rooms to resist the transmission of high diseases to resist the transmission of students, he said.

In order to prevent outbreaks of high infectious diseases such as measles, vaccination rates should be as high as 95%. State data show that only 88% of Florida kindergartens are up to date last year.

Walsh expects Florida to perform significantly if Florida fulfills tasks and risks more children. The importance of Florida as a holiday place contributes to danger with the possibility of infected visitors to bring diseases such as non -controlled child paralysis between unaccredible population.

“We will see a real increase in preventive and potentially destructive diseases, not only in Florida, but in Florida,” Walsh said.

Before there was a measles vaccine in 1963, in the United States, up to 4 million people in the United States Disease Control and Prevention Centers It was infected every yearUp to 500 people were dying and 48,000 hospitals. Approximately 1,000 advanced encephalitis developed, a complication marked with the swelling of the brain.

Children’s paralysis paralyzed more than 15,000 people in the United States before a vaccination in the 1950s.

Ladapo’s proposed policy will require public school students to abolish state laws that require vaccination for children’s paralysis, diphtheria, rubela, cranberry, pertussis, mumps and tetanus.

However, other vaccines were made compulsory by the rules of the Ministry of Health, which state authorities would be changed in accordance with Ladapo’s proposal.

This includes shots to be protected against varicella or suicespox; Hepatitis B; Haemophilus influenzae type B; and pneumococcal disease. A rule change process can be completed within 80 days.

34 -year -old Indiana Anne Ashlee Dahlberg said that Florida was terrified to see that she plans to take this step.

When his 8 -year -old son Liam Dahlberg returned to school after Easter in April, Haemophilus influenzae was infected with B.

Despite the vaccination, it suffered from asthma, which made people more sensitive to respiratory infections and affected the reaction of the immune system.

The situation was largely worsened and was transferred to Comer Children’s Hospital at the University of Chicago. It was intubated and started a medical coma. However, Liam’s infection had turned into meningitis.

The child died 36 hours after his first illness.

The doctors told his mother that the infection of the infection means that the virulence probably means that it is contracted from an unaccipped person. State data are about 20% of children in Lake County, Indiana.

Dahlberg felt that he had to do something, so that other parents will not be subjected to a heart attack. Almost gathered 20,000 signaturesHe invites Florida to call the vaccination.

“You should consider not only the life of your child, but also others who cannot be vaccinated or weaken the immune systems and cannot get the full effects of the vaccine,” he said.

Dealing with skepticism about concerns and vaccines has become a daily part of Wesley Chapel Pediatric Pediatric Nancy Silva as a vaccine skepticism increased.

Surveys by Gallup Show that the percentage of Americans who consider “extremely” or “very important” vaccine fell from 94% to 69% in 2001 to 69%.

Silva is a fiery supporter of vaccination obligation. The children he treats include some of his parents who study home because they do not want to shoot their children.

“My job is to explain the risks to them,” he said. “I know they don’t see a child died of meningitis.”

Silva is an example of politics that prioritizes long -standing scientific evidence that Florida’s policy is safe and effective.

Silva said, orum I want to do my job, and I want to sacrifice 25 years of my life to help children who have no political problems to help change things. ” “I hope the law stops and this is just a political gesture.”

Times personnel writers Nakyah Carter and Lawrence Mower contributed to this report.