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Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates The state would be the first to scrap requirements that children be vaccinated to attend school, among other rules. Listen to this article · 2:41 min Learn more Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the state’s surgeon general, has long opposed vaccine mandates.Credit...Chris O'Meara/Associated Press By Patricia Mazzei Reporting from Miami Sept. 3, 2025, 12:59 p.m. ET Florida plans to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, including for schoolchildren, rejecting a practice that public health experts have credited for decades with limiting the spread of infectious diseases. Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, the Florida surgeon general, made the announcement on Wednesday alongside Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican. Mr. DeSantis rose to national prominence during the coronavirus pandemic, and over time he has espoused increasingly anti-vaccine views. “Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body?” Dr. Ladapo, a vocal denigrator of vaccines, said to applause during an event on Wednesday in Valrico, Fla., near Tampa. “Your body is a gift from God.” He added that the administration would be “working to end” all vaccine mandates. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,” Dr. Ladapo said. Dr. Ladapo has faced repeated criticism from others in his field for his stances on public health. He allowed parents to choose whether to send unvaccinated children to school during a measles outbreak in Weston, Fla., in 2024, rejecting longstanding, evidence-based public health guidelines. The misinformation he spread about Covid vaccines prompted a public rebuke from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2023. It is unclear what the process of undoing the state’s longstanding vaccine mandates might look like. Dr. Ladapo said the Florida Department of Health, the agency he oversees, would do away with rules promulgating vaccine mandates. State lawmakers “are going to have to make decisions” as well, Dr. Ladapo said. “That’s how this becomes possible.” All 50 states have at least some vaccination requirements for children entering school, though all allow for medical exemptions, and most allow exemptions for religious or personal reasons. The number of students receiving exemptions has been increasing in recent years, and immunization rates have been falling, according to KFF, a health policy research group. Mr. DeSantis, who appointed Dr. Ladapo as surgeon general in 2021, also announced the creation of a commission to align Florida with goals laid out by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s secretary of Health and Human Services and a vocal vaccine skeptic. The commission will be headed by Casey DeSantis, the governor’s wife. “We’ve already done a lot,” Mr. DeSantis said. “I don’t think any state has come even close to what Florida has done.” But, he added, “we want to stay ahead of the curve.” Patricia Mazzei is the lead reporter for The Times in Miami, covering Florida and Puerto Rico. See more on: Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump The Latest on the Trump Administration Presidential Medal of Freedom: Just days after Rudolph Giuliani — President Trump’s onetime lawyer and a former New York City mayor — was hurt in a car accident, Trump says he will give Giuliani the nation’s highest civilian honor. Climate Report: More than 85 American and international scientists condemned a Trump administration report that calls the threat of climate change overblown. Counseling an Aggressive Agenda: David Warrington, Trump’s White House counsel, has taken a mild approach to the job, focusing on “ the art of the possible,” as one Trump adviser said. Workers Lose Protection: More than 445,000 federal employees lost their union protections in August as agencies moved to comply with an executive order that called for ignoring collective bargaining contracts with nearly one million workers. Effort to Deport Guatemalan Children: A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting the minors after a last-minute flurry of legal action. How We Report on the Trump Administration Hundreds of readers asked about our coverage of the president. Times editors and reporters responded to some of the most common questions. nytimes.com My comments: Total insanity! This will be a disaster especially for immune compromised children and adults. I'm just shaking my head... We supposedly live in the 21st century not the 17th. Eric