Florida Vaccination Rates Will Remain High Despite Removal of Mandates, Surgeon General Predicts

Florida Vaccination Rates Will Remain High Despite Removal of Mandates, Surgeon General Predicts

Florida’s plan to remove all vaccine mandates will not lead to infectious disease outbreaks, the state’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, has said. Ladapo announced on Sept. 3 the plan to remove the mandates. In a new interview, he said the effort to remove mandates is motivated by a desire to restore bodily sovereignty, but he rejected critics’ claims that it will reduce vaccination rates. “I think that you can have both,” Ladapo told EpochT…