Southern state becomes first to end ALL vaccine requirements… as surgeon general says mandates are like ‘slavery’

Florida is set to end all state vaccine mandates for children and adults, officials have announced.

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced at a news conference Wednesday that the state will no longer require children attending schools to be vaccinated against several of the most contagious diseases. 

These include measles, mumps and rubella, polio, tetanus, chickenpox and Hepatitis B. 

And likening vaccine mandates to ‘slavery,’ Ladapo said the Florida Department of Health and Governor Ron DeSantis will work to end every single mandate in the state.

Ladapo said: ‘Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.

‘Who am I as a government or anyone else, or 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 be put in their body? I don’t have that right.’ 

Florida previously required children attending public or private school from Kindergarten through 12th grade to get a series of vaccines unless their parents filled out a form invoking a religious or medical exemption.