Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said Sunday that his team didn’t study the impact eliminating vaccine mandates would have on the spread of preventable diseases before announcing the policy change.
Ladapo said that projections on the impact of ending the mandates are unnecessary and that ending them is a moral issue about parental rights.
“Absolutely not,” Ladapo told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday when pressed by host Jake Tapper about whether his team did a data assessment of how many new cases would emerge from the mandates going away.
“There’s a conflation of the science and what is the right and wrong thing to do,” he added. “It’s an issue of right and wrong.”
Last week, Ladapo publicly vowed to end “every last one of” the vaccine mandates for schoolchildren, without outlining a timeline or a specific plan for doing so.
“Parents should always be able to decide what goes into their kids’ bodies. It’s not complex at all,” he later added. “We don’t need to do any projections; we handle outbreaks all the time.”
Prior to the announced policy shift, Florida trailed the US average for immunization among kindergarteners for key diseases with well-established vaccines.
For example, the Sunshine State has an 88.7% vaccination rate among kindergarteners for measles, mumps and rubella, below the 92% national average, per data from state and federal health officials. --->READ MORE HERE
Sen. Jon Husted said Sept. 5 that the government shouldn't force vaccinations amid changes in federal guidance.
At a tour of the Eastland Career Center in Groveport, Husted said that "we should never force people to take vaccines that they don't want."
"Through the pandemic, a lot of public trust was lost in our so-called 'health experts,'" Husted said. "We need to rebuild trust and we should always remember, though we shouldn't force people to take health care services they don't want, but we shouldn't prevent them from having access to them either."
In August, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration changed the recommendation for COVID-19 vaccines, saying they should be administered only to people over certain ages with underlying conditions and those over 65, according to USA TODAY.
Husted's remarks came a day after an explosive U.S. Senate Finance Committee hearing with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., where Kennedy initially refused to say COVID-19 vaccines had saved lives or acknowledge that more than 1 million people in the U.S. had died from the disease when prodded by senators, according to USA TODAY. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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