VALRICO, Fla. – Florida officials are working to end all vaccine mandates, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced in a news conference on Wednesday.
Ladapo joined Gov. Ron DeSantis in Hillsborough County to announce that the Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor, is working to eliminate school immunization requirements.
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“Who am I as a government or anyone else, or who am I as a man standing here now to tell you what you should put in your body? Who am I to tell you what your child should put in your body? I don’t have that right,” Ladapo said.
Some of the current school immunization requirements include Hepatitis B, chickenpox and measles-mumps-rubella.
“Those are gonna be gone. And we’re gonna be working with our amazing DeSantis and our wonderful lawmakers to get rid of the rest. It’s gonna be good. We need to end it,” Ladapo said.
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DeSantis said he supports Ladapo’s initiative to eliminate vaccine mandates and that the state will create a “big medical freedom package” to ensure people are not discriminated against regardless of their vaccine choices.
“It was wrong to do vaccine passports in 2021. It’s wrong to do them in 2025, and it will be wrong to do them in 2035, and we need to make that permanent,” DeSantis said.
Click here to read the full list of required school immunizations.