Soon, though, Florida's policy may change. Earlier this month, the state's surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, announced his intention to end all vaccine mandates: "Every last one of them is wrong," he said. Some vaccine rules-including the one applying to the meningococcal vaccine -are written into the state's laws, but Ladapo has said his office will partner with Governor Ron DeSantis's to push for necessary changes.
GOLDBERG: They sneeze, everybody gets sick. You think you're dying, you know, but you're not, you just got hit by kid stuff, Goldberg continued. We know that this happens. There are reasons that people put these mandates in place. Now, you want to get rid of all of them. You're basically saying, Let's see what happens if your kid goes to school with other kids. SUNNY HOSTIN: And what about the teachers in the school? GOLDBERG: And your grandparents, who are elderly, are in with your grandkids. So now, you're saying, y'all don't care.
I wrote an op-ed yesterday in FoxNews.com that there's two reasons for vaccination. One is personal choice, protect yourself. The other is protect your community. And it depends on the vaccine. And during the pandemic, with all of the mandates, we lost sight of one of the main reasons for getting vaccinated protecting the community. And when it comes to the measles vaccine, it's a wildly contagious virus and an incredibly effective vaccine at preventing spread that's been around for 60 years.
"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?"
