🚨HOLY COW: Florida is set to become the FIRST STATE in America to BAN ALL vaccine mandates of any kind — not just COVID.
"Your body is a gift from God… Pretty much every state has them. It's wrong."
Should this be done in every state?
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he agreed with U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s reduction in recommended vaccines.
At a Make Healthy Florida First press conference on Jan. 9 before the state announced its new food testing program, DeSantis called the new vaccine schedule “more manageable.”
“You got to ask yourself, when somebody is recommending or whether they’re coercing, what is on the back end of that? What’s the relationship between somebody in medical and big drug companies, for example. What’s the financial arrangement?” DeSantis said behind a lectern at a farm in Barstow.
“And I’m telling you, there’s a seedy underbelly to all of this stuff,” DeSantis added.
Florida’s surgeon general made a surprising announcement last week that the state is moving to “end all vaccine mandates.”
Dr. Joseph Ladapo said the Florida Department of Health would be working with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office to end all mandates in state law. DeSantis noted that some vaccine mandates would be removed immediately while others would require legislative intervention.
Ladapo said that parents should be able “to choose” what vaccines they want their children to receive or not to receive.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/florida-ending-vaccine-mandates-rest-us/story?id=125360736