Florida plans Drop school vaccine orders Unless lawmakers decide to expand to other diseases like polio and measles, it will be effective for 90 days, including only chicken po and several other illnesses, the health department said on Sunday.
The department responded to requests for details four days later Florida Surgeon GeneralDr. Joseph Radapop said the state will first voluntarily vaccinate vaccinations and have families decide whether to vaccinate the child.
It is a withdrawal from decades of public policy and research that has shown that vaccines are safe and the most effective way to stop spreading epidemics, especially among children. Despite this evidence, US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a deep statement Scepticism about vaccines.
Florida’s plan will raise mandate for school vaccines for meningitis and other hepatitis B, Chickenpox, HIB influenza and pneumococcal disease, the Health Department said.
“The department began changing the rules on September 3, 2025, and we expect the rules to change will not be effective for about 90 days,” the state told The Associated Press in an email. Florida’s public school year began in August.
All other vaccinations needed to attend school under Florida law “exist” and “exist” it includes vaccines for measles, polio, difteria, whooping cough, mumps and tetanus, he said “exist” “unless renewed through the law.”
The committee meeting will begin in October, but lawmakers will not meet again until January 2026.
Ladapo, who appeared on CNN on Sunday, reiterated the message of free choice for childhood vaccines.
“If you want them, God’s blessing, you can have as many as you want,” he said. “And if you don’t want them, parents should have the ability and power to decide what goes into their child’s body. That’s very easy.”
Currently in Florida Religious exemption Regarding vaccine requirements. The vaccine has saved at least 154 million lives worldwide over the past 50 years, the World Health Organization reported in 2024. Most of them were infants and children.
Dr. Lana Alyssa, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Florida chapter, said voluntary vaccines put students and school staff at risk.
This is The worst year for measles Over 30 years in the US, more than 1,400 cases have been confirmed nationwide. Most of them are in Texasand three deaths.
Hooping cough killed at least two babies in Louisiana Washington 5 years old Since winter, that has spread rapidly. As of August 23rd, there had been over 19,000 cases, an increase of nearly 2,000 from last year. According to preliminary CDC data.
