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…
Measles Exposure Alert Issued In DC, Maryland, Virginia After Infected Traveler Visits Region
A confirmed case of measles in a traveler has sparked a regional health alert in DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
DC Health is warning residents of possible measles exposure after an international traveler visited multiple high-traffic areas across the DMV earlier this month.
The infected person visited airports, Metro stations, buses, a school in Chevy Chase, and a pediatric clinic in DC, officials announced.
The public may have been exposed on the following dates and times:
June 8, 10:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.: Dulles International Airport, Concourse A to baggage claim;
June 8, 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m…
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…
Englewood Health Opens New Doctors Office In Cliffside Park
Englewood Health has opened a new primary and specialty care doctors office in Cliffside Park.
Englewood Health Physician Network is located in a 6,000-square-foot facility at Towne Centre on Anderson Avenue.
The offices have 12 exam rooms along with entirely-new lab and imaging equipment, and physician consult offices.
Patients can access primary care for acute, chronic and routine medical care, school or occupational physicals, immunizations, and travel medicine, as well as onsite testing such as laboratory and imaging studies, EKGs, stress testing, and pulmonary function test…
Kosher Deli, Rite Aid Among North Jersey Locations Exposed To Measles
A person who was exposed to the measles in Ocean County possibly brought the highly contagious illness to North Jersey, the New Jersey Health Department said.
The three places in Passaic County visited by the local resident on November 17 and 18 are:
Passaic Chill Youth Drop In Center, 217 Brook Ave., Passaic on Nov. 17 between 8:30 p.m. and midnight
Junior’s Kosher Deli, 215 Main Ave., Passaic, on Nov. 18 between 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Rite Aid, 78 Main Ave., Passaic on Nov. 18 between 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
The Passaic County exposure is associated with the outbreak in Ocean County, in whi…
