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Florida will move to end all vaccine mandates in the state, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo announced Wednesday. The move would make Florida the first state to end a longstanding – and ...

As the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis prepares to make Florida the first state to remove school vaccine mandates, deep concern is spreading among doctors, parents and public health workers for ...

State officials believe patients should be able to make medical decisions based on advice from a doctor and without the influence of a government mandate.

This increase in whooping cough diagnoses has pediatricians worried for children who are too young to be vaccinated or unvaccinated children, who are the most at risk, especially at a time when state ...

“My jaw dropped,” Alissa, who is also the president of the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, told Salon in a phone interview. “I did not expect this major news to happen in our ...

As the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis prepares to make Florida the first state to remove school vaccine mandates, deep concern is spreading among doctors, parents and public health workers for ...

Florida is poised to become the first state to drop all vaccine requirements, including immunizations for schools. At a Sept. 3 press conference in Valrico in Hillsborough County, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, ...

Florida’s plan to drop school vaccine mandates likely won’t take effect for 90 days and would include only chickenpox and a few other illnesses unless lawmakers decide to extend it to other diseases, ...

For years, Florida has required students to get vaccinated against measles, polio and other highly contagious diseases to attend school. But Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo ...

Florida’s surgeon general said the state will attempt to end all vaccine mandates, including those for measles, whooping cough, tetanus and polio.

Florida's plan to drop school vaccine mandates likely won't take effect for 90 days and would include only chickenpox and a few other illnesses unless lawmakers decide to extend it to other diseases, ...