Today, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo announced that the Florida Department of Health is beginning the process to eliminate all vaccine mandates in the state. The announcement came at a press conference where Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had also announced the creation of the state’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission. The Commission will be focused on prioritizing health, restoring trust in the medical profession, and protecting medical freedom, such as removing mandated immunization requirements.
“The Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor, is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida law,” Dr. Ladapo stated at the press conference. “All of them.”
Dr. Ladapo noted that the state health department would begin by first starting the process to strike down rules established by his predecessors that mandated vaccines, and then it would work with Gov. DeSantis and the state’s lawmakers to eliminate the rest of the mandates.
