""Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," he told a cheering crowd of vaccination foes in Tallahassee. "Who am I, as a government or anyone else, to tell you what you should put in your body?""
""They're told not to speak to anyone without permission from supervisors," he said."
"The state responded with a statement that vaccines will "remain available" to families who want them."
Florida plans to end school-age vaccination mandates with support from Gov. Ron DeSantis and Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, who announced the plan on Sept. 3. Ladapo stated mandates are wrong and asserted individuals should decide what enters their bodies. Historical evidence shows mandates increase vaccine uptake; lower vaccination rates are expected to drive increases in measles, hepatitis, meningitis and pneumonia and could allow diphtheria and polio to return, threatening infants and immunocompromised people. Many health officials and university infectious disease experts have been silenced or told not to speak without permission. The state said vaccines will remain available but declined further comment.
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