""I'm looking at this report from your department from April showing that more people in Florida are seeking religious exemptions for vaccines and at the same time Florida is seeing rising cases of hepatitis A, and whooping cough, and chicken pox, Tapper told Dr. Ladapo. This is in your own report, your own department's report. Before you made this decision to try to lift vaccine mandates for Florida which include obviously public schools did your department do any data analysis?""
""Ladapo said absolutely not, and argued that mandates don't have anything to do with the notion of transmission. He added, ultimately, this is an issue, very clearly, of parents' rights. So do I need to analyze whether it's appropriate for parents to be able to decide what goes into the children's bodies? I don't need to do an analysis on that.""
""Tapper was incredulous. You're trying to lift the vaccine mandate in Florida, and your department and you did not even do a projection as to how this could impact public health, Tapper said. So you have not prepared hospitals in the Florida counties, most at risk, with the best treatments for any outbreaks of measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, polio. And you have not looked into how many kids might now get these preventable diseases? That's what you're saying?!""
Jake Tapper pressed Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo about plans to end vaccine mandates and whether the department analyzed public-health impacts. Tapper cited an April departmental report showing rising religious exemptions and increased cases of hepatitis A, whooping cough, and chickenpox. Ladapo said no data analysis or projections were done and asserted mandates do not affect transmission, framing the decision as an issue of parents' rights. Tapper questioned readiness of hospitals in high-risk counties and whether officials projected how many children might contract preventable diseases if mandates were lifted. The exchange exposed disagreement over data-driven policy and preparedness.
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