Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said Wednesday that the state will end all vaccine mandates.
“All of them. All of them,” Ladapo said during a press conference, NBC News reported. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.”
He said the Florida Department of Health will work with Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Ladapo also said forcing vaccine mandates is “wrong” and “immoral.”
“Who am I as a government or anyone else, who am I as a man standing here now, to tell you what you should put in your body? he said. “Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body? I don’t have that right.”
Florida currently requires vaccinations for students going to public school.
“You want to put whatever different vaccines in your body, God bless you. I hope you make an informed decision,” Ladapo said. “You don’t want to put whatever vaccines in your body, God bless you. I hope you make an informed decision. That’s how it should be.”
Dr. Robert Malone, who was recently appointed to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent vaccine advisory committee, posted on X that he had spoken with Ladapo on Tuesday, calling him “a measured scientist who is on fire to change the system for the better.”
