Florida law already allows religious and healthy exemptions for vaccine missions for public school children. The proposed changes would completely eliminate the power of attorney.
Florida’s official slum vaccine is vaccine as “slavery” to its mission
Florida surgeon general Dr. Joseph Radapop condemned the vaccine as “slavery” and supported efforts to eliminate the statewide vaccine mission.
Florida surgeon General Joseph Radapop said there is no need to study the potential impact of ending vaccine mandate for children before doing so for the first time in 45 years.
“We happen in Florida, like all states, and we manage them,” Radapop told host JacTapper on September 7th on CNN’s “Affiliated State.”
Tapper specifically asked Ladapo why providing health and religion exemptions to the general vaccine obligation was not enough to meet their concerns.
“It’s really about ethics,” Radapop said. “You have sovereignty over your body, and that is it.”
Radapop made comments on September 3 after Florida officials announced plans to eliminate vaccine requirements for public school children.
Under current Florida law, children in public schools must receive vaccinations equivalent to polio, measles, mumps and other infectious diseases. The law allows religious and health exemptions.
The proposed changes face growing scrutiny of US Department of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his vaccine skepticism.
In June, Kennedy fired all 17 members of the CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel, saying a “clean sweep” was needed “to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science.”
At a press conference on September 3, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended a plan to remove all vaccine requirements for children in state public schools.
“We should empower our parents, not try to steal their rights,” DeSantis said.
At a press conference on September 3rd, Radapop compared the vaccine requirements to “slavery.”
“The last one is wrong, dripping with da and slavery,” Radapop said. “Almost every state has them. It’s wrong, it’s immoral.”
Evidence shows that various vaccines are extremely effective in reducing or eradicating disease.
A World Health Organization-led study issued in 2024 showed that approximately 154 million lives have been saved through vaccines over the past 50 years. Of these lives, 94 million people were saved through the measles vaccine.
The polio vaccine has prevented approximately 20 million paralysis in children since 1988, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Contributed by: Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy and Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today; AnaGoñi-Lassan, USA Today Network
