Florida surgeon general says state to end all vaccine mandates

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 GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis on the matter.

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 asked aloud. "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.

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.”