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Florida Ends Vaccine Mandates, Calling Them ‘Slavery’; Experts Decry Decision
Florida will become the first state to eliminate all vaccine mandates.
Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo announced the move during a press conference on Wednesday, Sept. 3, comparing the mandates to “slavery.”
“Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,” Ladapo said.
Previously, the state required children to receive measles, mumps, rubella, polio, chickenpox, and hepatitis B vaccines. Religious exemptions were allowed, but now parents may opt out for any reason.
According to the World Health Organization, vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives ov…
CT Among 19 States Suing To Reverse Trump's 20,000 Health Care Job Cuts: 'Reckless, Dangerous'
Over one-third of U.S. states are urging a federal judge to reverse President Donald Trump’s decision to cut 20,000 Department of Health and Human Services employees, arguing the move could have dangerous and long-lasting effects on public health.
Nineteen states — including Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Maryland — along with Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit in Rhode Island on Monday, May 5. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in March that the agency would cut nearly 25 percent of its workforce as part of Trump’s push to overhaul the federal government and reduce spendin…
