Florida is moving to “finish all vaccine mandates” in the state, Florida surgeon general Joseph Ladapo announced at a press conference on Wednesday.
Ladapo said that the Florida Health Department would work with Governor Ron Desantis’s office to end all mandates in Florida’s law, at the Grace Christian School event in Valrico, located east of Tampa.
“The last one is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,” Ladapo said about vaccine mandates.
Currently, Florida It requires children Between the kindergarten and 12th grade to receive four or five doses of the Cold Diphtheria-Tetanus (DTAP) four or five doses of the polyomyelitis vaccine; Two doses of the measles, paper and rubella (MMR) vaccine; A dose of the vaccine against the tetanos-imifteria-acellular (TDAP) and at least two doses of the chickenpox vaccine unless the child has had the disease in the past.
The General Surgeon of Florida Joseph Ladapo and Governor Ron Desantis at a press conference at West Palm Beach, Florida, on January 6, 2022.
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