Florida Official Dismisses Need to Study Vaccine Mandate (1)

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said there’s no need to do projections of the potential effects of ending vaccine mandates for children, as Governor Ron DeSantis pushes to make his state the first one to scrap immunization requirements.

“We don’t need to do any projections,” Ladapo said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. “We handle outbreaks all the time. So there’s nothing special that we would need to do.”

Ladapo said the move to end vaccine requirements is a way to reclaim “sovereignty over your body” and give parents the choice.

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