Florida’s plan to drop school vaccine rule won’t start for 90 days, won’t cover all diseases
AP Florida s plan to drop school vaccine mandates likely won t take effect for days and would include only chickenpox and a meager other illnesses unless lawmakers decide to extend it to other diseases like polio and measles the wellness department declared Sunday The department responded to a request for details four days after Florida s surgeon general Dr Joseph Ladapo revealed the state would become the first to make vaccinations voluntary and let families decide whether to inoculate their children It s a retreat from decades of inhabitants guidelines and research that has shown vaccines to be safe and the most of effective way to stop the spread of communicable diseases especially among children Despite that evidence U S Fitness Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has expressed deep skepticism about vaccines Florida s plan would lift mandates on school vaccines for hepatitis B chickenpox Hib influenza and pneumococcal diseases such as meningitis the robustness department explained The Department initiated the rule change on September and anticipates the rule change will not be effective for approximately days the state communicated The Associated Press in an email The constituents school year in Florida started in August All other vaccinations required under Florida law to attend school remain in place unless updated through act including vaccines for measles polio diphtheria pertussis mumps and tetanus the department commented Lawmakers don t meet again until January although committee meetings begin in October Ladapo appearing Sunday on CNN repeated his message of free choice for childhood vaccines If you want them God bless you can have as multiple as you want he mentioned And if you don t want them parents should have the ability and the power to decide what goes into their children s bodies It s that simple Florida at this moment has a religious exemption for vaccine requirements Vaccines have saved at least million lives globally over the past years the World Fitness Organization announced in The majority of those were infants and children Dr Rana Alissa chair of the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics stated making vaccines voluntary puts students and school staff at liability This is the worst year for measles in the U S in more than three decades with more than cases substantiated nationwide preponderance of them in Texas and three deaths Whooping cough has killed at least two babies in Louisiana and a -year-old in Washington state since winter as it too spreads rapidly There have been more than cases as of Aug nearly more than this time last year according to preliminary CDC input
