Health experts Slament the Florida plan to end vaccination mandates

Florida plans to eliminate all state vaccine mandates – including those of schools – according to an announcement by Florida general surgeon, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, during a press conference on Wednesday. This decision sparked a strong reaction from the health care community.

Ladapo, which is a long -standing vaccination critic, argued that “each last of them is false and flows with disdain and slavery”. Florida would be the first state to end all the mandates of the vaccine.

“Who am I as a man standing here now to tell you what you should put in your body? Who am I to tell you what your child should put in your body? I don’t have good,” he said. His comments were made alongside the governor of Florida Ron Desantis.

The announcement comes as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – A known critic of the vaccine – directs the American Department of Health and Human Resources. Kennedy recently abolished the director of the CDC and rejected the agency’s independent vaccine consulting committee, replacing them with vaccine skeptics.

It is estimated that vaccines have saved around 154 million lives in the past 50 years, the vast majority being infants, according to the World Health Organization.

The American Medical Association criticized the Florida plan to end all vaccination mandates.

“This unprecedented decline would be undergoing decades of progress in public health and would place children and communities at increased risk of diseases such as measles, mumps, polio and chickenpox causing serious illnesses, handicap and even death,” said Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, MD, administrator of the American Medical Association, in a declaration. “Although there is still time, we urge Florida to reconsider this change to help prevent an increase in epidemics of infectious diseases that set health and life in danger.”

A Pluto Health executive, a business -focused business company to the necessary care (including vaccines), also condemned the ad.

“I believe that this decision is seriously wrong,” said Eric Perakslis, scientific director and data manager for Pluto Health and former FDA information director, in an email. “After working with healthy partners and doctors without borders in countries where vaccines are not easily available, I saw first -hand the devastating consequences when people suffer from diseases that could have been eradicated or prevented. It is heartbreaking to monitor communities to undergo avoidable diseases simply because they lack access to basic vaccines. ”

Another manager of health technology – Dr. Amy Bucher, Director of Behavioral of Lirio – expressed his concern about the announcement of Florida. Lirio offers a personalization engine that combines behavioral sciences and AI. Bucher is also a researcher who recently conducted a study on vaccination behavior in the United States

“As a person who has studied vaccine behavior considerably, including the obstacles that already exist so that people can access and accept vaccines, I find this decision deeply concerning. “Delete them not only weakens the infrastructure which supports the absorption of vaccines, but also sends a signal that these preventive measures are optional or useless.”

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